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"I thought I heard Celestine's voice," she said, looking questioningly around; and Holmes quickly noted that the girl had suddenly slunk back behind a little group of camp-women. Finding it useless to evade the searching glance of her young mistress, the girl came forth. "Yes, Miss Fanny. I got your letters, miss," she said, but the confident tone was gone.
"You forget," continued Lee, "what happened not many hours ago when your train was saved by that dare-devil Casey the little book held tight in his locked teeth the letter meant for this Neale from one of Benton's camp-women.... Your engineer read enough. You heard. I heard.... A letter from a dying woman.
Boyd's roving gaze had been arrested by a little scene enacting just around the corner of the partly-erected barracks, where half a dozen soldiers had gathered around some camp-women, whose sullen attitude discouraged their gallantries. She was dressed in shabby finery.
We were walking abroad for the air, my wife and I " he turned to Major Lockwood: "Betsy whispered to me, 'There is a handsome wench talking to an Indian! And I saw the Sagamore standing in the sunset light, conversing with one of the camp-women who hang about Colonel Thomas's regiment.". "Would you know the slattern again?" asked Colonel Thomas, scowling. "I think so, Colonel.
Hunt glanced at Colonel Thomas, then with a slight colour mounting to his temples: "The Sagamore was talking to one of the camp-women last evening toward sundown on the Rock Hills.
The integrity of the Marylanders, whom Gornell approached, was not to be shaken; and to their fidelity and the quick ears of one of the camp-women, the army was indebted for its safety. The circumstances were all in favor of the success of the conspirators. There was a general discontent in the army.
Quarters were selected for the officers, soldiers, and camp-women; and the household furniture which belonged to each, and which had been thrown pell-mell on the parade-ground, was all separated and deposited in the different rooms. I chose an apartment near the mess hall, and made it so comfortable that Anderson and Seymour came there temporarily to live with me.
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