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He came on slowly, and he leaned for rest against a sycamore at the edge of the pavement. Miriam bent out from the frame of wistaria. "Oh, soldier! don't you want a glass of milk?" "Oh, soldier" looked nothing loath. He came over to the little balcony, and Miriam took the glass from Christianna and, leaning over, gave it to him. "Oh, but that's nectar!" he said, and drank it.
We are going undoubtedly to cross to the north bank Yes. McClellan's right wing Fitz John Porter A good soldier Oh, he'll have about twenty-five thousand men." A boy, breathing excitement from top to toe, sent up a shrill voice. "Isn't Jackson coming, sir? Aren't they looking for Jackson?" The soldier who had drunk the milk was discovered by Miriam and Christianna, near their tree.
Christianna rose, looked at the clock, which was about to strike noon, left the room and returned with a glass of milk. "Mrs. Cleave said you was to drink this Yes, Miss Miriam, do! There now! Don't you want to lie down?" "No, no!" said Miriam. "I don't want to do anything but sit here and watch. Look at that old, old woman with the basket on her arm!
Christianna came down the road and unlatched the gate. "Come in, come in, Christianna!" said Tom. "Come in and take a cheer! Letter came yesterday " Christianna sat down on the edge of the porch, her back against the pillar. She took off her sunbonnet. "Violetta learned to do a heap of things while I was down t' Richmond.
Glad of the victory but with only calamity beneath its eyes, the city wrestled with crowding pain, death, and grief. Margaret Cleave was at one of the great hospitals. An hour later came, too, Miriam and Christianna. "Yes, you can help. Miriam, you are used to it. Hold this bandage so, until the doctor comes. If it grows blood-soaked like this one call some one at once.
I reckon they'll leave a brighter streak than a deal of folk who aren't gaunt an' ragged an' shoeless an' dirty." "I don't ever see them so," said Christianna, in her soft drawling voice. "I see them just like a piece we had in a book of reading pieces at school. It was a hard piece but, I learned it.
He had protested that others needed a bed much more, that he was used to lying on the earth but Christianna had been firm. He wondered why she did not come.
Give my very best regards to Christianna. She surely was good to me in Richmond. I don't know what I would have done without her. At first, before I " Sairy put out her hand. "Give it to me, Tom. I'll read the rest. You're tired." "No, I'm not," said Tom. "At first, before I came up with the Army, I missed her dreadfully." Sairy rose, stepped from the porch, and turned the drying apples.
Christianna looked over her shoulder, then at Miriam. The latter's long lashes lay on her cheek. Beneath them glistened a tear, but her slight, girlish bosom rose and fell regularly. Christianna crooned on, "Shady Grove! Shady Grove Children love my Shady Grove " Boom! Boom! Boom, Boom! Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom! Miriam started up with a cry.
Coming back, she touched the girl on the shoulder very gently. "They're all fools, Christianna. Once I met a woman who did not know her thimble finger. I thought that beat all! But it's hard to match the men." "You've put me out!" said Tom. "Where was I? Oh At first, before I came up with the Army, I missed her dreadfully. Billy reminds me of her at times. It's near roll call, and I must stop.
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