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The railroad from Richmond, torn up during the war, had just been rebuilt to that point. Swinton was the historian of the Federal Amy of the Potomac. He spent some days in Lexington, and, I suppose, sought from my father information on points connected with his history of the movements of General Grant's army.
Didn't you postpone until another day a visit to Amy Stanton last winter, for just such a reason as this, that you might go to Annie Grainger's when her mother went to Baltimore, and Amy never thought of its being impolite or unkind." "But that was different, Kitty." "Different? Show me where the difference is, please." "Oh, Kitty, you know." "But I don't know."
"Please tell us what happened to him," added Amy breathlessly. "Did he do this?" asked Mollie, with a comprehensive sweep of her hand about the cluttered room. "I'm afraid he did," answered the young fellow, sobering instantly. "You see, I just returned from overseas about a week ago and a couple of days later my dad read in the paper about the death of this queer old man's two sons.
"Why, what's all this about?" said the questioning glance of Amy. If there was any offense at all, on anybody's part, it lay in making too much of too little. "Take back my plate, somebody," said Mrs. Phillips. Randolph put out his hand for it. "This sandwich," said Amy, reaching for an untouched square of wheat bread and pimento. "I've been so busy with other people...."
Amy felt that she was coming close to nature's heart, and the novelty of it all was scarcely less exciting to her than to Johnnie. To little Ned it was a place of wonder and enchantment, and he kept them all in a mild state of terror by his exploring expeditions.
I forgot that. It was selfish; for we slip out of the fuss, and it all falls on her. 'Yes, said Amy; 'but don't you think it would tease her more to have to persuade papa out of what he likes, and alter every little matter?
The unfortunate Amy, indeed, remained motionless betwixt the desire which she had to make her condition known to one of her own sex, and her awe for the stately form that approached her, and which, tho her eyes had never before beheld, her fears instantly suspected to be the personage she really was.
Just when you ought to have begun to earn a bit higher wages when you ought to have been glad to work your hardest, to show you wasn't unthankful to them as has done so much for you! Who earned money to keep you when you was goin' to school? Who fed and clothed you, and saw as you didn't want for nothing? Who is it as you owe everything to? just tell me that. Amy affected to pay no attention.
Fools! the fierce passions of the soul belong not to the period of youth or early manhood. But let my story illustrate my position. Amy filled my lonely home with mirth and music. She rose with the lark, and carolled as wildly and gayly the livelong day, till, like a child tired of play, she sank from very exhaustion on her pure and peaceful couch. Norman was her playmate.
Stone. "We are also planning to have a swimming and diving contest the latter part of the regatta week, but I don't suppose you young ladies would care to enter that." "We all swim, and we have our bathing suits," said Mollie, indefinitely. "Mollie dives beautifully!" exclaimed Amy. "I do not that is, I'm not an expert at it," Mollie hastened to say. "But I love diving."
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