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Tell me," added she, pointing out the crooked marks in the corner of the handkerchief, "do you recognize that?" Vingo drew forth the bandanna, which always accompanied him in his wanderings, and laid it by the side of the other. They were just alike; there were the two crooked marks upon each, speaking as accurately as the most highly finished ambrotype of the day.
And now, when she was ready and stood before him in all her superb womanhood, a basket of dainties on her arm for the old servants, he spoke very solemnly as he handed her an ambrotype set in a large gold breast-pin. "You'll need this to set you off around yo' neck." At sight of it all the color left her cheeks. "Why, it is mine I gave it to to Tom. He took it to the war with him.
A peculiar smile disclosed Russell's faultless teeth an instant, but he merely took the coat, laid it over his uninjured arm, and answered "Don't trouble yourself about spent balls finish your job. I must look after my wounded." As soon as the bandages were adjusted he walked away and took from the inside pocket of the coat a heavy square morocco case containing Irene's ambrotype.
It was an ambrotype, set into a case lined with purple velvet. The face was that of a young man, not more than twenty-five or thirty, who looked strangely like Winfield. The eyes, forehead and the poise of the head were the same. The earth trembled beneath Ruth's feet for a moment, then, all at once, she understood.
And I have seen an old ambrotype of him, taken in the days of this story: hair short-cropped, gray; eyes thoughtful, courageous; mouth firm, kind, and ready to smile.
Mr. Lamar was one of the "small boys" of Spencer County when Lincoln left Indiana, but old enough to have seen much of him and to have known his characteristics and his reputation in the county. From an ambrotype in the possession of Mr. Marcus L. Ward of Newark, New Jersey. This portrait of Mr. Lincoln was made in Springfield, Illinois, on May 20, 1860, for the late Hon.
He borrowed fifty cents of me, and askin' me to send him Wm. Lloyd Garrison's ambrotype as soon as I got home, he walked off. Said another, "There's bin a tremendous Union feelin here from the fust. But we was kept down by a rain of terror.
They are your father and grandfather." She leaned and looked, and how eagerly, how yearningly her eyes dwelt upon the handsome face which still closely resembled the Cuthbert of college days, and the ambrotype she had studied so carefully since her arrival in Paris.
There was but one picture an ambrotype, in an ornate case, of a handsome young man, with that dashing, dare-devil look in his eyes which has ever been attractive to women. Ruth smiled as she put the treasures away, thinking that, had Fate thrown the dice another way, the young man might have been her esteemed and respected uncle.
Leaning forward, she crossed her arms upon the marble, and looked down on the contents of the box, her child's letters, her own unanswered appeals in behalf of her babe, a photograph of the latter, and most prominent of all, a large square ambrotype of a handsome boyish face, with a short curl of black hair lying inside the case. "Idolatrous?
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