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The fair ones to whom these carriages belong may be seen in the distance squatting down on rugs spread out beneath the trees, and sipping coffee or sherbert while listening to musicians or story-tellers.
The speech, whether written down or not, is in its nature ephemeral and does not belong to literature; but it may, like the report and the letter, and indeed still more readily than these, come to be included, through the significance of the moment and the power of the mind from which it springs, among the permanent treasures of the national literature.
But the profession to which I belong, which is that of a soldier, and which is the noblest profession a man can follow, is a hazardous one, and were I to delay until to-morrow to write down what I have seen and done, these memoirs might never be written, for, such being the fortune of war, to-morrow might not come.
"I know what he has gone for; and, as you belong on board of that steamer, I should think you might easily imagine." "Perhaps I can," added Christy rather vaguely. "Was it necessary for a major and a lieutenant, with six soldiers, to go for the doctor, when five at the most could have done it better? But have they gone?" asked the captain anxiously. "They have; they started some time ago.
But when I do bow down to her I bow away down. Why, at Montrose, I actually talk on serious subjects!" "Do you touch often on religion? You never do to the gentlemen I bring to see you." "Why, Mr. Ravenel, I don't understand you. What should I know about religion? You seem to forget that I belong to the choir." "Well, politics, then. Don't you ever try to make a convert even in that?"
Even now that she was a prominent senior, an "Argus" editor, and a valued member of Dramatic Club, she never seemed to herself to "belong" to things as the other girls did. She was still an outsider.
This, instead of having the desired effect on Fred, only rendered him the more impudent; for he didn't relish being called "fellow," even if he had on a flannel shirt. "Will you tell me where you belong?" demanded the officer, angrily. "O, certainly." "Well, where?" "Have you ever heard of such a place as Boston?" Fred asked. "Yes it is in England."
The rest ran to the magazines, and there more of them expired while they beset the doors; for they were again repulsed. "Who were they? to what corps did they belong? what had they to show for it?
Girls who know how to work and who are accustomed to it, will snap their fingers in your face, and tell you they can take care of themselves, but the class to which the Allens belong, unless kept up by some rich relations, are soon almost desperate from want. I have kept up a correspondence with Zell. They seem to have no near relatives or friends who are doing much for them.
Mary's dress and demeanor betrayed at once that she could not belong to any official employed here; and, as soon as he had learnt who she was, he whispered to his companion, an aged deacon who always accompanied him when he visited a female prisoner: "We find her here!"
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