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Hayes, on his way from Negatimbul, was ordered to march to the support of the retreating party; but these having taken a different route he remained ignorant of the particulars of their loss.
The cruel war had not left unscathed that rustic congregation. There were rusty weeds of woe, a black ribbon, a bit of crape, or a widow's cap, that bore witness to the loss of husband or son in the sad conflict.
And ranches and CANONS, veldts and prairies, tropical forests and coral islands, and all that goes to make up the wild life in the face of Nature or among primitive races, far and free from the artificial conditions of an elaborate civilisation, form an element in the world, the loss of which would be bitterly felt by many a man who has never set foot outside his native land.
Four years after, I met with another loss, far superior to this in value, and I think by no less wicked means. Being going to New-London with a grand-child, I took passage on an Indian's boat, and went there with him. On our return, the Indian took on board two hogsheads of molasses, one of which belonged to Capt. Elisha Hart, of Saybrook, to be delivered to his wharf.
Straiter to strike off to his left, following a road leading from Fayette to the old Mission House. By doing this he made his escape with small loss, but was completely cut off from his retreat back to Rosenfelt's Headquarters. He traveled all night and struck the left of Gen. Papson's Corps at daylight, giving this information to Papson, which was at once sent to Rosenfelt.
Never before or afterwards in his life did he close a period so long as four years without some sensation of loss some sentiment of habit but school was what in after life he commonly heard his friends denounce as an intolerable bore. He was born too old for it. The same thing could be said of most New England boys. Mentally they never were boys.
Oh, Gwen, Gwen! sometimes the thought comes to me that if it were not for my privation, my happiness would be too great to be borne that I should scarcely dare to live for it, had the price I paid for it been less. What is the loss of sight for life to set against...." "Are you aware, good man, that you are talking nonsense? Be a reasonable Poet, at least!"
A few months' intermission of labour he had obtained not of rest, for it was purchased with the loss of a limb; and the greater part of the time had been a season of constant pain.
But first let me tell of a circumstance that occurred at this date, and which quite changed the current of my existence. It was a great misfortune that befell me the loss of both my parents. I have said that my father was a seaman by profession.
On the second day, however, Pyrrhus anticipated the Romans in occupying the intersected ground, and thus gained without loss the plain where he could without disturbance draw up his phalanx.