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He was educated, it would appear, under his mother's influence rather than that of the soldier-father, and did not, till his mind was quite mature, throw himself into the revolutionary opinions which afterward influenced him so greatly.
Yes, yes; let that coarse-mannered, passionate, old soldier-father of hers be as unnaturally republican as he pleases, he has inherited a name which will help my son to a peerage! "Charmingly, madame charmingly. Ah! this second marriage of my young master's begins under much better auspices than the first." The remark was an unfortunate one.
Straitened for means wherewith to keep their strong souls in their feeble bodies, worn with toil, tortured with anxiety for the safety of the soldier-father or son, or husband or brother, and fighting the conflict of life alone, woman proved in that great ordeal her claim to those virtues which are by common consent assigned to her as her peculiar characteristics.
"It wouldn't be a 'D.," thought he, "for nobody told me not to give the watermelons." "No," said Conscience; "'twould be a black S.; that stands for stealing! What, a boy with a dead father, a dead soldier-father, steal! A boy called Horace Clifford! The boy whose father had said, 'Remember God sees all you do!" "Wampum," said Horace, firmly, "you just stop that kind of talk!
Only she, Saxon, daughter of Daisy who had written wonderful poems and of a soldier-father on a roan war-horse, daughter of the strong generations who hall won half a world from wild nature and the savage Indian no, she was not stupid. It was as if she suffered false imprisonment. There was some mistake. She would find the way out.
While the rest argued pro and con and the air was filled with phrases, "psychic phenomena," "self-hypnotism," "residuum of unexplained truth," and "spiritism," she was reviving mentally the girlhood pictures she had conjured of this soldier-father she had never seen.
His dead soldier-father was the idol of his heart. "Did I?" He swung Jeff round and looked at him. "You're like him, in a way, and, by Gad! you fight like him. What's your name?" "Jefferson Davis Farnum." "Shake hands, Jefferson Davis Farnum, you dashed little rebel. My name is Lucius Chunn. I was a lieutenant in your father's company before I was promoted to one of my own."
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