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The tables were turned: as the Yankees had fought at Fredericksburg, so the Rebels had to fight in Pennsylvania. On the second day Heth's division was not engaged, but occupied the ground near that on which it had fought the day before, close by the seminary in which General Lee had his headquarters.
And then pretty soon I saw people looking at me, and kep' on looking, and one of 'em that looked somep'n like Miss Masters, on'y it wasn't her, says, 'Wot's that girl a-doin' here? she says. 'Why, she's a buncher down to Heth's. So I walked on off and set down at my Writin'-Desk, and made out I didn't notice and was writin' notes or somep'n, like.
Over the spaces of the great court, half lobby, half parlor, Miss Heth had seen the masculine apparitions an instant before they saw her: or just in time, that is to say, to be showing them now her flawless profile.... It is easily surmised that Miss Heth's manner in action was contained, her habit the very reverse of forward.
Heth's personal note was that Carlisle had wilfully brought shame and disgrace upon her ever indulgent parents, and she did not desire that the girl should be diverted for a moment from the contemplation of her errors. In their quiet quarters, they saw practically no one, did nothing but make themselves and each other as miserable as they could.
Pender's division formed on the right of Heth's and both pressed forward in the face of volleying musketry and thundering cannon. We found out afterward that the opposing force consisted of the three divisions of the First Corps under the command of General Reynolds. Right bravely did they fight, and being driven from the ridge they formed again on Seminary Ridge, determined to hold it.
The feet, seen casually in a company, were apt to be taken for the belongings of some far stouter woman, sitting near. They were Mrs. Heth's, however; and she had also a small round birthmark on her left temple, which a deft arrangement of the hair almost concealed, and a small dark mustache, which was not so fortunately placed.
Carlisle looked at her mother, and there were both apprehensiveness and dependence in her look. She herself was the cleverer of the two women, but very comforting it was to her to feel this rock-like support behind her now. Into Mrs. Heth's gray eyes had sprung a kind of glitter, the look of a commanding general about to make an exterminative rush upon the enemy.
After the lamented death of General Jackson the divisions of the Army of Northern Virginia were organized into three corps, commanded, respectively, by Longstreet, Ewell, and A. P. Hill. General Heth was assigned to the command of the Light Division, and the senior colonel of the first brigade, John M. Brockenbrough took the command made vacant by Heth's promotion.
She was sane and sound as to judgment, and her will had raised the House of Heth as by a steam derrick. Miss Heth, gazing down at three or four hardy bathers, who splashed and shouted at the hotel float, said, laughing: "Truly, mamma, what do you suppose the Cheritons would have given Willie for the splendid tip?" Mrs. Heth's frown at her newspaper deepened; otherwise she made no response.
All the blood in the little creature's body seemed to rush headlong to her face. She shrank away as from something more painful than a blow. But all that she said was: "Oh!... Ma'am!" It was Miss Heth's turn to show a red flag in her cheek. "You don't want it?" "I why ma'am, I couldn't ..." "As you like, of course."
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