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She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part. I cannot doubt it. You will find, whenever the subject becomes freed from its present restraints, that it did not take her wholly by surprize. She frequently gave me hints of it. I remember her telling me at the ball, that I owed Mrs. Elton gratitude for her attentions to Miss Fairfax.
Some of his were addressed to political leaders, like Fairfax, Cromwell, and Sir Henry Vane; and of these the best is, perhaps, the sonnet written on the massacre of the Vaudois Protestants "a collect in verse," it has been called which has the fire of a Hebrew prophet invoking the divine wrath upon the oppressors of Israel.
"Where?" said my lady, and turned about to see. Mr. Fairfax knew her. He descended the steps, came out at the lych-gate, and met her. At that instant the cast of his countenance reminded Bessie of her cynical friend Mr. Phipps, and a thought crossed her mind that if Lady Latimer had not recognized her grandfather and made a movement to speak, he would not have challenged her.
He was keenly disappointed at being held in reserve throughout the fighting. Long afterward, it was to be his expressed opinion that the Confederacy had lost the war by failing to follow the initial victory and exploit the rout of McDowell's army. The remainder of 1861 saw him doing picket duty in Fairfax County.
"Now, what should you do, Miss Fairfax, supposing you had to earn your bread by a labor always horribly disagreeable and never unattended by danger?" he asked with great eagerness. Bessie had not a doubt of what she should do: "I should work as hard as ever I could for the shortest possible time that would keep me in bread." "Just so," said Sir Edward rubbing his hands.
"That is true. Can I gratify your curiosity in any other particular?" "Strive not to let yourself be soured, Mr. Douglas. I shudder when I think of what you have undergone at the hands of one woman. There! I will not allude to it again." "You will do wisely, Mrs. Leith Fairfax. What I have suffered, I have suffered. I desire no pity, and will endure none." "That is so like yourself.
"I don't know how to tell you, and I don't know how to resign myself to it either, but I I can't take you to the theater. I I've got to got to well, you see, I've got to be with Billy." She spoke quickly at that. "Mr. Fairfax, is Billy really ill is there something more than I understand? Why didn't you tell me? Has their been an accident, perhaps?
We were marching to join him, when news came that Fairfax had given him an entire defeat at Torrington. This was but the old story over again. We had been used to ill news a great while, and 'twas the less surprise to us.
It's underneath the flowering almond." Fairfax Cary glanced behind him. The servants were out of the room; Deb was gathering crumbs for the birds. "Give me one kiss! If you knew how much I love you! The world's tuned to-day just to that." "Such an old tune! The world has other things to think of and other airs than that!" They went out into the hail.
What are you looking at, Sally?" "There seems to be something moving over there," answered Sally indicating some small elevations about three miles to the north of the road. "Thee will get thy wish, Friend Nurse, for something is surely moving about. We have seen naught for so long that any living thing is curious. What are those specks, Friend Fairfax? They are too large for ducks."
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