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The trap pitched more than ever as she came up into the shafts and back into her harness; she twisted suddenly to the left into a narrow lane, cleared the corner by an impossible fluke, and Fanny Fitz was hurled ignominiously on to Rupert Gunning's lap.
"What does all this mean, Fitz?" I asked, spreading my letter out. "I give it up, Major. The last I saw of the colonel was at two o'clock. He was then in the private office writing. That old wind-bag Klutchem had been worrying him, I heard, and the colonel sat down on him hard. But he had forgotten all about it when I talked to him, for he was as calm as a clock.
Lady Fitz Rewes had too delicate a face to contain any expression of the alarm and horror she felt at this statement. She frowned, bit her lips, and sank back in her chair. What stroke of fate, she wondered, had overtaken the poor girl? Was she sane? Was she herself?
Ingham-Baker, who bridled stoutly, and thought that he was a very distinguished-looking man despite his dark airs. He received Agatha's careless nod and shake of the hand with a murmured politeness; with Eve he shook hands in silence. Then he turned rather suddenly upon Fitz and held out his hand gravely. "I congratulate you," he said.
"I am on leave of absence from my regiment, Colonel," continued Fitz Hugh, speaking now with an elaborate ceremoniousness of utterance significant of a struggle to suppress violent emotion. "I suppose you can understand why I made use of it in seeking you."
Magruder's bearing toward Savage Station, and if Jackson's across the Chickahominy we might do for Fitz John Porter eh?" "We might," agreed Steve. "I'll lie a little flatter, because the sun and the wetting has made my head ache. They're fine troops." The grey regiments went by, long swinging tread and jingling accoutrements.
'If you are a Conservative party, we wish to know what you want to conserve, said Lord Vere. 'If it had not been for the Whig abolition of slavery, said Lord Fitz- booby, goaded into repartee, 'Jamaica would not have been an exhausted sugar colony. 'Then what you do want to conserve is slavery? said Lord Vere. 'No, said Lord Fitz-booby, 'I am never for retracing our steps.
I am informed by the Assistant Secretary of War that Loudoun County has a large population of Quakers, who are all favorably disposed to the Union. These people may be exempted from arrest. "U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General." "MAJOR-GENERAL SHERIDAN, Halltown, Va.: "Telegraphed you that I had good reason for believing that Fitz Lee had been ordered back here.
"Y' know, my dear child," said one elderly M.F.H., "you had no business to send up an animal without the condition of a wire fence to the Dublin Show. Look at my horses! Fat as butter, every one of 'em!" "So was mine, but it all melted away in the train," protested Fanny Fitz in vain.
"You must excuse me, gentlemen, but the discussion of these topics has quite unnerved me. Allow me to share with you a thimbleful." Fitz drained his glass, cast his eyes upward, and said solemnly, "To the repose of the postmaster's soul." The Garden Spot of Virginia seeks an Outlet to the Sea
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