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Merry, you stay here." The young man saw it was useless to remain, as it would only excite the old man; and so, with a look of apology, not without humor, at Marietta, he went to the house to get his valise. The girl wept silently while the father raged up and down. His mood frightened her. "I thought you had more sense than t' take up with such a dirty houn'."
When he came home, fagged out and dusty, at dinner time, Marietta presented a visiting card to him, on her handsomest salver. She presented it with a flourish that was almost a swagger. Twice the size of an ordinary visiting-card, the fashion of it was roughly thus: IL CARDLE UDESCHINI Sacr: Congr: Archiv: et Inscript: Praef: Palazzo Udeschini.
I was born December 23, 1863, in Marietta, Cobb County, Ga. My parents, James and Adella Canty, were slaves. I am the eldest of two brothers and three sisters, who are all living. My father died in the fall of 1895.
Forrest had with him in Middle Tennessee about eight thousand cavalry, and Hood's army was estimated at from thirty-five to forty thousand men, infantry and artillery, including Wheeler's cavalry, then about three thousand strong. We crossed the Chattahoochee River during the 3d and 4th of October, rendezvoused at the old battle-field of Smyrna Camp, and the next day reached Marietta and Kenesaw.
"No, no!" she cried, trembling and weeping; "no man shall dare to tear you from me! We will never be separated!" "You think, then, that I am not only your prisoner for life, but also the eternal prisoner of the King of Prussia?" "No, no! you shall be free free! but Marietta will also be free, and by your side. When you leave Berlin, I go with you; no power can bind me here.
"You seem glad to see us after all," she said. "Yet you protested that I should not come to-day!" "I cannot help it," he answered. "Ah, but if you had been with us just now!" Nella began, still frightened. But Marietta would not let her go on. "Hold your tongue, Nella," she said, with a little laugh. "You should know better than to trouble a sick man's fancy with such stories."
This was the order of the four lawful settlements in the Ohio country: first that of the Massachusetts men at Marietta in July, 1788; next, that of the New Jersey men at Cincinnati in December, 1788; then that of the Virginia men at Manchester in 1790; and then that of the Connecticut men at Conneaut in 1796.
This letter he sent by a trusty messenger to the spot appointed for the meeting place, and they waited impatiently for the further result. It was not long coming. Before two o'clock, Marietta discovered another letter tied to the garden gate, but how it came there they were unable to decide.
"Plague take Marietta!" impatiently. "She wan't nothin' but the go-between. 'Twas my wife that said it. You understand 'twas Julia, my wife, talkin', don't you?" "Why ah why I suppose " "Suppose? Don't you KNOW 'twas?" "Why ah no doubt, no doubt." "Course there ain't any doubt. Well then, Julia said there was a dark man heavin' a sort of evil influence over Lulie."
When a child, with the omnivorous reading propensity of children, I had perused a thin, pale octavo, which stood on the shelves of our library, containing the record of a journey by the Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, of Dorchester, from Massachusetts to Marietta, Ohio.
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