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Welles was not at all glad to see him at this moment. "Here, let me have the mattock," he said, taking it out of Mrs. Crittenden's hands, "I want to try it myself." He felt an anticipatory impatience of Vincent's everlasting talk, to which Mrs.
And behind him erect, proud, face aflame, eyes burning, but hardly less cool rode Basil. Crittenden's eyes filled with love and pride for the boy. "God bless him God save him!"
Welles did not recognize. His curiosity rose again. He wondered if he might not succeed in getting some explanation out of the manufacturer, if he went about it very tactfully. He would wait for his chance. He began to perceive with some surprise that he was on the point of quite liking Mrs. Crittenden's husband.
Two other divisions, Crittenden's and McCook's, came up the river from Savannah in the transports and were on the west bank early on the 7th. Buell commanded them in person. My command was thus nearly doubled in numbers and efficiency. During the night rain fell in torrents and our troops were exposed to the storm without shelter.
If Rosecrans were at Rome, as General Crittenden's dispatch indicated, he was more than a hundred and seventy miles distant from Knoxville, and nearly three hundred miles from the region about Greeneville and the Watauga River, whose crossing would be the natural frontier of the upper valley, if Burnside should not be able to extend his occupation quite to the Virginia line.
Bayweather had dropped in just as they were going to start and had come along. He stopped dictating and looked at the group with a certain interest. Marise and the children had had a good deal to say yesterday about the newcomers to Crittenden's. It seemed to him that the impression he had received of them had been as inaccurate as such second-hand impressions were apt to be.
Welles," Marise appealed to him, "do you think that is the truth of the facts?" The old man pronounced judgment gently. "Well, I don't know that anything is the truth. I should say that both of you told the truth about it. The truth's pretty big for any one person to tell. Isn't it all in the way you look at it?" He added, "Only personally I think Mrs. Crittenden's the nicest way."
'Tain't nuttin', 't all." And then he almost fell. "Go back, Bob." "All right, Ole Cap'n, I reckon I'll jus' lay down heah little while," he said, stretching out behind the tree. And Grafton reached over for Crittenden's hand.
It was only through the withdrawal of pro-slavery members that the Republicans had achieved an unexpected majority in either House. Had those members chosen to return to the seats still awaiting them, and to support Mr. Crittenden's proposition, they could have carried it without difficulty." Vol. 360, Greeley's Am.
The little General was the last to leave, and he rode slowly, as if overcome with memories. Crittenden took off his hat and, while he hesitated, hardly knowing whether to make himself known or not, the little man caught sight of him and stopped short. "Why why, bless my soul, aren't you Tom Crittenden's son?" "Yes, sir," said Crittenden. "I knew it.
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