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I've often thought if she'd been the oldest boy instead of me she'd have kept Jim straight, and managed to drive father out of his cross ways that is, if any one living could have done it. As for riding, I have never seen any one that could sit a horse or handle him through rough, thick country like her.
Instead of a regimental band, which I had supposed summoned, a single corporal ran out the barracks, touching his cap. "Take this party round to the gate," the officer said, and he promised us that he would see us there, and hoped we would not mind a rough walk.
Drawing the collar of his rough peajacket close about his throat and crowding his cap to his ears, he descended the steps and with one of his quick, decided movements plunged into the park, now silent and deserted. As he neared the Seymour house he became conscious, from the glow of lights gleaming between the leafless branches of the trees, that something out of the common was going on inside.
A dear friend gave me, many years ago, a rough, white terrier puppy, which I called Alp. I fed him with my own hand from the first, and he consequently evinced the warmest attachment to me. No animal could be more obedient; and he seemed to watch my every look to ascertain what I wished him to do.
The room was quite light from a fire burning in a rude stone fire-place, before which crouched a weird form, with knees drawn up to the chin in Indian fashion. Hair, long and unkempt, fell down over his neck, and a beard, months old, was rough and straggling. The cheeks were hollow, and the weary, sunken eyes, turned toward the door, were filled with alarm.
Notwithstanding this the little reptile returned to the bed, keeping close to his master, but he continued to be very restless and excited for the remainder of the night. When day dawned, preparations were begun for the day's march. The tents were struck and the bedding was rolled up, ready to be placed on the rough digger's cart. Then the mystery was explained.
He had a conviction, which was occasionally avowed, that all women were troublesome; and whether this evidence be considered pro or con, he was a man of rough sense and rustic piety, of a most fearless, and, what the Germans call, a self-standing nature for solitude or society came all alike to John.
The country has never known a period of such excitement and warlike life; except during the Revolution, perhaps scarcely then; for that was a lingering war, and this a stirring and eventful one. One would think that no very wonderful talent was requisite for an historical novel, when the rough and hurried paragraphs of these newspapers can recall the past so magically.
Pack up at once, was the order soon after tattoo, and at midnight the regiment with all its baggage was aboard the "Thomas Collyer," returning to Plymouth. It was terribly stormy and rough; and at seven in the evening the vessel got out of the channel and ran aground in Albemarle Sound, a distance of about seven miles from Roanoke Island Landing.
'Come along, girls. I've got the parcel. Thank you, he added to Mrs. Fairchild, 'and good-morning. Alie and Biddy turned to follow him. But first they shook hands with Celestina and her mother. 'I'm so sorry, said Biddy, 'not to see the dolls' room. Wouldn't Rough wait a minute, Alie? 'No, the elder sister replied.
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