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Nothing could more forcibly demonstrate the unequal character of the contest between the slave-State and the free-State men in Kansas, even in these manoeuvres and conflicts of civil war, than the companion exploit to this third Lawrence raid.
Cum Talis sis, Utinam noster esses! The following Letters are so pleasant, that I doubt not but the Reader will be as much diverted with them as I was. I have nothing to do in this Day's Entertainment, but taking the Sentence from the End of the Cambridge Letter, and placing it at the Front of my Paper; to shew the Author I wish him my Companion with as much Earnestness as he invites me to be his.
Supposing that the two figures approaching were Burmese deserters, they did not fire; and Stanley and his companion were soon among them. They were soldiers of one of the Bengal regiments; and Stanley, to their surprise, addressed them in their own language. "I am an Englishman," he said. "I am one of the prisoners whom they took, at Ramoo, and have escaped from their hands.
Captain King, the companion of Cook, gives the following description of the Sandwich Islanders: "They are in general of the middle size, and well-proportioned. Their movements are graceful, they run swiftly, and are able to carry great weights.
"No, the women were outside the garden when he entered it." This assertion seemed far too audacious to suit Lecoq's companion, who remarked: "One can not be sure of that." "I am sure of it, however; and can prove it conclusively. If you doubt it, it is because your eyes are growing old.
Early escaped from the fight with a lone orderly as his comrade, and the next day the general who had lost all through no fault of his own, rode into Richmond with his single companion, and from him Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, heard the full tale of Southern disaster in the Valley of Virginia.
Some watchers for fugitives came on board, and Earlstoun and his companion were challenged. Earlstoun, fearing the taking of his papers, threw the box that contained them overboard; but it floated, and was taken along with himself. Then began a long series of misfortunes for Alexander Gordon.
She turned Tommy over on her back and, placing a hand under the little girl, began swimming slowly. The added burden was almost more than Harriet, in her benumbed state, was able to handle. She knew that she could not support Grace and herself through the rest of that long, dark night. She knew, too, that unless they were rescued, her companion would be past help by the end of another hour.
Friend passed a somewhat wakeful night after the scene in which Helena Pitstone had bestowed her first confidences on her new companion. For Lucy Friend the experience had been unprecedented and agitating.
I could not prevent these little betrayals of himself, however; for, by this time, my companion was too much excited, to hear reason. "The lady that you love," answered the fortune-teller, deliberately, and with the manner of one that proceeded with great confidence, "is very handsome, in the first place." "True as the sun in the heavens, Mother!"
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