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"The noblest Roman of them all," grand old "Pap" Thomas, was in command, with Howard, Stanley, Newton, Wood, Palmer, Davis, Joe Hooker, Williams and Geary as his principal lieutenants. And thither came 15,000 strong all of the Army of the Ohio who could be spared from garrisoning dearly-won Kentucky and East Tennessee.
In such a society, art could hardly have had a mission other than the glorification of a power without limit and without control a power to which alone the Assyrians had to look for a continuance of their dearly-won supremacy.
A storm suggests something very different to my mind: a sudden down-rushing wind from the mountains, which carries away houses for which reason they are secured with ropes at home; waves from the Arctic Sea, which bury high rocks and islands in foam, and roll ground-seas of innumerable fathoms' depth, so that vessels are suddenly dashed to pieces in the middle of the ocean; crowds of brave men sailing for their very lives before the wind, and not for their lives only, but also to save the dearly-won cargo for the sake of those at home, and, even in deadly peril, trying to lend a hand to a capsized comrade; I think of the shipwreck of countless boats and vessels on a winter evening, in the hollows of the foaming waves.
In spite of all that he had just passed through, Jack's thoughts were not fixed upon the fighting or dearly-won victory. "O Val!" he blurted out, "I've found that watch the one that was stolen at Brenlands!" In a few hurried sentences he described the conversation he had overheard, and the discovery of the timepiece in the dead lieutenant's pocket.
It would seem weary work even for canal-boating. It takes weeks to toil up what it once took only hours to float down. As we sped past the return convoys, we seemed sad profligates, thus wantonly to be squandering such dearly-won vantage of position. The stream which meant money to them was, like money, hard come and easy go. Still the stream hurried us on.
She was much troubled about it, as she stood looking into the flushed tearful face, with all that light of defiance behind the tears, and felt instinctively that little Rosa, still only a pretty, obstinate, vain, uneducated little girl, was more than a match for herself, with all her dearly-won experiences.
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