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There had been dancing and music and games, and eleven o'clock brought fatigue for even the liveliest of the guests. It was then that pretty Louise Kelly, of the Major Kellys of Richmond, peremptorily commanded the Colonel to tell the oft-told tale of the Gloaming Ghosts. "Come to order," she cried to the guests in the double parlours.
It has come to me from the boy's friends, and" he hesitated a second "and from his or from those who are not his friends." "Not his friends?" the mother cried, half rising. "Why, Mr. President, Jack hasn't an enemy in the world!" "You came through from Richmond last week? Have you heard nothing from your son since you saw him?" "Nothing. Oh, is there anything about him?"
Such blows and counter blows were never seen, only they never hit, but often whirled the warrior who dealt them completely round; they tumbled over their own blows, panted with feigned rage, lost their robes and great pasteboard helmets, and were even more absurd than Richmond and Richard ever were on the country boards at a fifth-rate theatre.
Clair and Langdon had partners, and making apologies they left to join them. Harry and Dalton remained with de Langeais. "Colonel St. Hilaire said that you were with Longstreet," said Harry. "I am, or rather was. At least our regiment belongs with him, but when he was detached to meet the possible march on Richmond we were left with General Lee, and I am glad of it."
A staunch ship had brought him from Constantinople to New York; a week he had spent with his friends at Troy; the lightning express, then so-called, from the latter city to Richmond; thence a stage had set him down at Flat-Rock; here, public conveyance went no farther. The best and only means of transportation was on horseback.
What has the spirit of Atlanta in Georgia, of Birmingham in Alabama, of any town in the South-west, from St. Louis to Galveston, to do with the typical spirit of the South? However strong Southern sentiment may still be, what is there of the Southern spirit even in Richmond or in Louisville?
For this purpose he made choice of a subject which could regard only persons of the highest rank and greatest affluence, and which was therefore proper for a poem intended to procure the patronage of a prince; and having retired for some time to Richmond, that he might prosecute his design in full tranquillity, without the temptations of pleasure, or the solicitations of creditors, by which his meditations were in equal danger of being disconcerted, he produced a poem "On Public Spirit, with regard to Public Works."
Colonel Richmond met him at the door, and, by Nick's request, took him at once to the room from which the articles had been stolen. It was a modern room in a new part of the house. Nick was entirely unprepared for this. He did not know that the colonel had built any additions to the old mansion. Colonel Richmond spoke of this remarkable feature of the case at once.
H.F. Lee, one Lieutenant-Colonel, one Surgeon, and one hundred prisoners. They also brought with them thirty-five wagons, besides burning eighty-five wagons and several railroad bridges. On the 28th, General Dix and Staff arrived and preparations were at once made for a move towards Richmond. Captain Pasco, of Company A, received his commission as Major on this day.
Provisions were received from Batavia and there was no suffering. No one was reported dead or missing. At Moscow, near New Richmond, fifty houses were washed from their foundations. No section of the country suffered more extensively from the flood than Ohio, of which state no part seemed to escape.
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