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"And now," Davis went on, "I must ask you to be so kind as to precede me to the parlor, where I shall entertain you more comfortably." He emphasized this statement with a slight gesture with one of his revolvers and there was naught for the lads to do but obey. Davis followed them closely, still covering them with his two revolvers.
They will not be sufficient to cover the bare feet of the army." Lee to Davis, September 12, 1862. Many a stout soldier, who had hobbled along on his bare feet until Pope was encountered and defeated, found himself utterly incapable of marching into Maryland. In rear of the army the roads were covered with stragglers.
The efforts in this direction of men like Gavan Duffy, Davis, and Lucas were neutralised by the Famine, the after effects of which also did much to thwart Butt's attempts to develop serious public opinion amongst a people whose political education had been so long delayed.
It happened that Davis had no one on the outside with whom he cared to talk, so he gave a good deal of attention to Bert, telling him about the horses and their peculiarities, and how they were in so many ways just like people, and had to be humoured sometimes, and sometimes punished, and how it was, upon the whole, so much better to be kind than cruel to them.
The same doubt of the upper South appears at various times in the Mercury. And through all the tactics of the opposition runs the constant effort to discredit Davis. The Mercury scoffed at the agitation for negro soldiers as a mad attempt on the part of the Administration to remedy its "myriad previous blunders." In these terrible days, the mind of Davis hardened.
On the 26th of January the House was to vote on the Electoral Bill, and a large majority of the members were committed to its support. To the complete surprise of both parties it happened that Judge Davis was elected senator from Illinois on the preceding afternoon, January 25th.
"I have much finer ones than this; I am always dressed like a lady. How can you bear to be such a sight in that ugly linen thing?" "My dear, simple clothes are more becoming to children," said Miss Davis, while Phyllis only curled her lip.
Helen answered him, in a faint voice, "It is not that, Mr. Harrison; it is, it is, " "What, Miss Davis?" "It has been but a day! I have had no time to know you to love you." And Helen stopped, afraid at the words she herself was using; for she knew that for the first time in her life she had stooped to a sham and a lie.
'Well, one got the law after a fashion, said Attwater. 'One had to be a number of things. It was sometimes rather a bore. 'I should smile! said Davis. 'Rather lively, I should think! 'I dare say we mean the same thing, said Attwater. 'However, one way or another, one got it knocked into their heads that they MUST work, and they DID... until the Lord took them!
"As I told you, he isn't President Davis," Harry called, "but he's sure, when he's old enough, to be one of his successors." "Bet you a dollar, Johnny Reb, that President Davis has no successor." "Take you, Yank, and I'll collect that bet from you when I ride down Pennsylvania Avenue in my Confederate uniform at the head of the Army of Northern Virginia."
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