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The meal over, they washed up the dishes, and then huddled down in the tent once more. "This is the only drawback to camp life," said Snap, with a sigh. "A storm knocks everything endways. But there is no help for it, and a fellow must take the bitter with the sweet." The storm continued all day, and the only thing the lads did was to fish.
The whole history of her marriage was a misery to her; the marriage itself was a mistake; but there are hours of respite in the saddest life, and she was brave enough to try and make the best of hers. Above all, she was too generous to wish her husband to be painfully conscious of the change in their relative positions, that he was now in a manner dependent upon her father.
Undoubtedly the situation on the Atlantic littoral was sufficiently embarrassing to the Confederate authorities. The presence of a Federal force at New Berne, in North Carolina, threatened the main line of railway by which Wilmington and Charleston communicated with Richmond, and these two ports were of the utmost importance to the Confederacy. Blockade-running became a recognised business.
Bits of boyhood experiences, long forgotten and called up now, no doubt, by his evening at the cottage that had once been as much his home as the old house itself. How inseparable the four children had been! Fragments of his army life what an awakening it had all been for him! The coming struggle with the followers of Jake Vodell his new responsibilities.
How grand this morning pageant and how quickly the king of day was ushered in! The chafing ocean wore on its bosom a tender turquoise bloom decked with millions of flashing jewels. Later it resembled a sapphire sky coruscating with tremulous stars.
It is characteristic of them to pass through it with the feeling that it is an agreeable and stimulating mental activity.
Then she forgot her shyness and threw herself at him. "Oh, father!" she cried in a low, smothered voice, her whole frame shaking as she clung to him.
His quiet tones were clear, his gravity was full of conscious power, and the deference shown him by his subordinates was earnest and respectful. The preliminary details of our task were soon settled.
Poor Annie did not understand that it requires a nature seldom met upon this earth, to be solaced, under disappointment and failure, by another's joy. Annie had made up her mind to say very little to Margaret about what had happened the evening before.
The old sailor, with elated feelings, and bearing in his hands a bowl of coffee and two slices of toasted bread, is accosted by several suspicious-looking prisoners, who have assembled in the corridor for the purpose of scenting fresh air, with sundry questions concerning the state of his pupil's health. "He has had a rough night," the sailor answers, "but is now a bit calm.
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