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Ellen had told him in the afternoon that she had spoken with her father about it, and she had not intimated any displeasure or reluctance on him; but apparently he had decided not to suffer himself to be approached. It might be as well. Breckon had not been able to convince himself that his proposal to consult Judge Kenton was not a pose.
Their presence and voices did not convince him. "Yer meat's a burnin'," said Oncle Jazon, stooping to turn it on the smouldering coals. "Ye must be hungry. Cookin' enough for a regiment." Kenton shook Beverley with rough familiarity, as if to rouse his faculties. "What's the matter? Fitz, my lad, don't ye know Si Kenton? It's not so long since we were like brothers, and now ye don't speak to me!
He was there to see, while the military genius of the South planned in the shadow of a dark ravine a blow which the six intended to be crushing. "Where was the prisoner taken?" said Johnston to Colonel Kenton. "Sergeant Robertson and three other men of my command seized him as he was about to enter the Northern lines.
Kenton," said a neighbor, a young man named James McDonald Harry had noticed that Scotch names seemed to be as numerous as French in South Carolina "the words that all of us believe to be true leaped from your heart." Harry did not speak again, unless he was addressed directly, but he listened closely, while the others talked of the great crisis that was so obviously approaching.
Harry and his father were much present in his mind then, because he had recently seen Colonel Kenton, and because the year before, all three of them had talked together in these very places. But he could not dwell too much in the past. He was too young for it, and the bustle of war was too great. It was said that Bragg's forces had turned toward the southeast, but were still divided.
The savings she had made during the long years of her engagement were enough to fit her out sufficiently to feel that she was bringing her own wardrobe, and Lady Kenton actually went to London with her to superintend the outlay. 'Whom would they like to have asked to the wedding? the lady inquired, herself naming the Langs and Burfords.
"If you are in any doubt about it," observed Natalie, with an air of superb indifference, "I advise you to write for advice to the etiquette editor of the 'Kenton City Record. She is probably sixty-two years old, looks like an English walnut, has never had a proposal in her life, and so knows all about"
Kenton stared at him. "When this other one first made up to us on the boat my heart went down. I thought of Bittridge so." "Mr. Breckon?" "Yes, the same lightness; the same sort of trifling Didn't you notice it?" "No yes, I noticed it. But I wasn't afraid for an instant. I saw that he was good." "Oh!" "What I'm afraid of now is that Ellen doesn't care anything about him."
A dozen or more curious men and boys were lounging near, for the murmur of their voices reached the brothers, but no one ventured to intrude upon their privacy. "George, when we get back to Ohio we shall be able to tell a story that will beat anything Simon Kenton can relate." "How? There are not many that have passed through as much as he."
Why should he not? He had played over them all his life, and he could be in the fields and away in less than two minutes. Colonel Kenton finally consulted Judge Kendrick, and the judge agreed with Harry. Besieged by so many, they needed help and the boy was the one to bring it. Then Colonel Kenton consented that Harry should go, but pressed his hand and told him to be very careful.
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