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Dinwiddie could make his arrangements to be with us, we left Jerusalem and its surroundings and set off northwards. It was hard to go. Where many a sorrowful traveller has left his little mound of farewell stones on Scopus, I stood and looked back; as long as papa would wait for me.
"It is Miss Randolph's own country," remarked Mr. Dinwiddie. "She is not a Jewess," said papa. "Pardon me we have it on authority that 'he is a Jew which is one inwardly; an Israelite indeed," Mr . Dinwiddie muttered to himself. I saw papa was puzzled and half displeased.
Officers from the fort went out to meet the strangers; and, wading through mud and sodden snow, they entered at the gate. On the next day the young leader of the party, with the help of an interpreter, for he spoke no French, had an interview with the commandant, and gave him a letter from Governor Dinwiddie.
There was a difference, too, in their dress, for he had the carefully groomed and well-brushed appearance so rare in Dinwiddie, while Virginia's clothes might have been worn, with equal propriety, by Miss Priscilla Batte. She was still lovely, but it was a loveliness, Susan felt with a pang, that would break early.
Doubtless they remembered me, and thought of Stuart, as others had done, at seeing me. They gave me a soldier's welcome; soon, from the group around the camp-fire rose a song. Another followed, then another, in the richest tenor; and the forests of Dinwiddie rang with the deep voices, rising clear and sonorous in the moonlight night.
The chief thing was to get a run to start a rare red fox, if luck was good, because he was supposed to run straight by nature and not to move in circles after the inconsiderate manner of the commoner grey sort. But Providence, being inattentive to the needs of hunters in the neighbourhood of Dinwiddie, had decreed that the red fox should live there mainly in the vivid annals of old sportsmen.
But in all important matters I am directed in this ambiguous and uncertain way." Governor Dinwiddie subsequently made himself explicit on this point.
To hold on to Fitzgerald's ford Smith had to make a sharp fight, but Mumford's cavalry attacking Devin, the enemy's infantry succeeded in getting over Chamberlain's Creek at a point higher up than Fitzgerald's ford, and assailing Davies, forced him back in a northeasterly direction toward the Dinwiddie and Five Forks road in company with Devin.
Her mother, of course, was, also, "simple"; but, then, what could one expect of a woman whose only education had been at the Dinwiddie Academy for Young Ladies? To Jenny, education had usurped the place which the church had always occupied in the benighted mind of her mother.
" 'The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants; and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate. " "But their lives are empty sometimes?" "That they may be more full, then. Depend on it, the promise is sure, they shall not want any good I thing." "One must let the Lord judge then," I said somewhat sorrowfully, "what are the good things." "Will we not?" said Mr. Dinwiddie. "Do we know?