United States or Norway ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
In the Seventh Ohio was a company recruited in Cleveland, of which the nucleus was an organization of Zouaves, existing for some time before the war. It was made up of young men who had been stimulated by the popularity of Ellsworth's Zouaves in Chicago to form a similar body. They had had as their drill master a Frenchman named De Villiers.
"Why, Jane tells me he is building something he calls a cottage, at Rockaway, within a stone's throw of the principal hotel. They thought Longbridge too quiet." Mrs. Taylor's little girl had, by this, time, become very sleepy, and a little fretful; and Miss Agnes advised her being carried to her mother. Elinor led her away, rather, it is believed, to Mr. Ellsworth's regret.
He asked her where she had been since she fled from Terrace Hill, and how she came to be in Mrs. Ellsworth's family.
Father O'Malley had joined the group now, and he asked, "Has war been declared?" "Not yet, but we've got hopes." To Alaire Blaze explained: "Ellsworth's in Washington, wavin' the Stars and Stripes and singin' battle hymns, but I reckon the government figures that the original of those newspaper pictures would be safe anywhere.
Ellsworth's conduct throughout had been very much in his favour; he had been persevering and marked in his attentions, without annoying by his pertinacity. Elinor had liked him, in the common sense of the word, from the first; and the better she knew him, the more cause she found to respect his principles, and amiable character.
But Ellsworth's influence was not bounded by the Rio Grande. It was his advice that Alaire present her side of the case to the local military authorities before making formal representation to Washington, though in neither case was he sanguine of the outcome. The United States, indeed, had abetted the Rebel cause from the start.
"See how what works out?" his wife echoed. "The series." After all, Annesley had not written to her friends, Archdeacon Smith and his wife, on leaving Mrs. Ellsworth's, to tell the surprising news of her engagement. She had asked Mr. Ruthven Smith not to speak of it to his cousins, because she would prefer to write.
He attached so much importance to amusing the people whom he invited! She listened and thought that Mr. Ruthven Smith and Lady Cartwright seemed to have begun well. It seized her attention. She knew they were speaking of the burglary at Mrs. Ellsworth's house.
Ellsworth's, that if she had ever been normally brave like other girls, she had had the young splendour of her courage crushed out. The statue in gray plush and dark blue cloth came to life, and showed her the cloak-room. Other women were there, taking last, affectionate peeps at themselves in the long mirrors. Annesley took a last peep at herself also, not an affectionate but an anxious one.
Word Of The Day