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"You are the man who brought a horse back to our stable an hour ago." "Yes, sir." "You have been a soldier." "In the cavalry, sir. I have my discharge at home." "Where do you live?" "I work as teamster in the coal mines yes? they are by Lamar, sir." Claiborne studied Oscar's erect figure carefully. "Let me see your hands," he commanded; and Oscar extended his palms.
As music and splendor Survive not the lamp and the lute, The heart's echoes render No song when the spirit is mute No songs but sad dirges, Like the wind through a ruined cell, Or the mournful surges That ring the dead seaman's knell. Shelley. Captain Richard Claiborne gave a supper at the Army and Navy Club for ten men in honor of the newly-arrived military attaché of the Spanish legation.
How slight the links are in the chain That binds us to our destiny! T.B. Aldrich. Oscar's eye, roaming the landscape as he left Shirley Claiborne and started for the bungalow, swept the upland Claiborne acres and rested upon a moving shadow. He drew rein under a clump of wild cherry-trees at the roadside and waited.
No doubt a messenger had preceded us, for we found Squire Claiborne in his chair of office, ready to hear the case. In the tall, thin old man, with white hair and dignified aspect, I recognised a fit representative of justice one of those venerable magistrates, who command respect not only by virtue of age and office, but from the dignity of their personal character.
Then they fell to talking about individuals, chiefly men in the public eye; and as the Austro-Hungarian embassy was in mourning and unrepresented at the table, the new Emperor-king was discussed with considerable frankness. "He has not old Stroebel's right hand to hold him up," remarked a young German officer. "Thereby hangs a dark tale," remarked Claiborne.
But I have an idea, Miss Claiborne," he exclaimed, as though with inspiration. "Yes you have an idea " "Let me be the man on horseback; and you might be " "Yes the suspense is terrible! what might I be, your Majesty?" "Well, we should call you " He hesitated, and she wondered whether he would be bold enough to meet the issue offered by this turn of their nonsense.
And I am not a person, Miss Claiborne, to sneak out by side gates particularly when I came over the fence! It's a long way around anyhow and I have a horse over there somewhere by the inn." "My brother " "Is at Fort Myer, of course. At about this hour they are having dress parade, and he is thoroughly occupied." "But there is Monsieur Chauvenet. He has nothing to do but amuse himself."
I could not permit her to go alone, and she insisted that Flora should accompany her. I left Sim in charge of the raft, with the promise to return soon. The carriage conveyed us to the number in Claiborne Street indicated by Emily. It was an elegant mansion, and I was abashed by the splendors that were presented to my view as I entered.
Mothers, in stories of Prentiss, tell it now to their children, and it and he have become a tradition of the early days of Mississippi. The election terminated in the choice of Prentiss and Wood, by a small majority; but the certificate was given, through the basest fraud, to Claiborne and Gholson.
As the Fifth Corps moved into action, its right flank was to be covered by Mackenzie's cavalry, thus entirely cutting off Pickett's troops from communication with Lee's right flank, which rested near the Butler house at the junction of the Claiborne and White Oaks roads.
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