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When he awoke, Dinwiddie was gone, but the Philadelphia gentleman was still at table, deep in conversation with the officers there present.
It was a long day after that to Daisy; and so it was to Mrs. Sandford. Nora Dinwiddie was no longer with her; there was nobody to be a distraction or a pleasure to the grave little child who went about with such a weird stillness, or sat motionless with such unchildlike quiet. Mrs. Sandford did not know what to do; but indeed nothing could be done with Daisy.
Though she was in reality walking over cinders, she felt that her feet were treading on golden air. Above the Dinwiddie of Virginia's girlhood, rising sharply out of the smoothly blended level of personalities, there towered, as far back as she could remember, the grim and yet strangely living figure of Cyrus Treadwell.
"And in view of it? " "What can I do, Mr. Dinwiddie?" "Nothing to avoid the rocks. The helm is not in your hand." "But I know in whose hand it is." "And are willing to have it there?" "More than willing," I said, meeting his eye. "Then the boat will go right," he said, with a sort of accent of relief.
It is especially the small scale of the conflict that excites their derision. "Did you ever hear of the battle of Dinwiddie Court-House?" one of them said to me. I confessed that I had not. "No," he said, "nor has any one else heard of the battle of Dinwiddie Court-House. It was one of the most insignificant fights in the war.
Gist was urged to hasten forward the artillery. Major Muse was likewise the bearer of a belt of wampum and a speech, from Governor Dinwiddie to the half-king; with medals for the chiefs, and goods for presents among the friendly Indians, a measure which had been suggested by Washington. They were distributed with that grand ceremonial so dear to the red man.
"But, who will you get to do that, Preston?" "Nora Dinwiddie, I reckon." "Will she come?" "We shall want all we can get. All Mrs. Stanfield's young ones, and Mrs. Fish's and Linwood's and everybody. Now Daisy, here you are! This is the very thing." "For what?" said Daisy. "Don't you see? For you. This is Queen Esther before Ahasuerus you know the story?"
He instantly ordered out a hundred and fifty of his best men; put himself at their head, and leaving Major Muse with the rest, to man the fort and mount the swivels, sallied forth "in the full hope" as he afterwards wrote to Governor Dinwiddie, "of procuring him another present of French prisoners." It was another effervescence of his youthful military ardor, and doomed to disappointment.
Dinwiddie, in the little chapel at Melbourne; and with all the tenderness of the old time and the new it sprung from my heart and lips now "In evil long I took delight, "Unawed by shame or fear; "Till a new object struck my sight, "And stopped my wild career." "O the Lamb the loving Lamb! "The Lamb on Calvary "The Lamb that was slain, but lives again, "To intercede for me." How grand it was!
Dinwiddie had said, that God will help His people when they are trying to do any difficult work for Him; He will take care of them; He will not forsake them. Suddenly it filled Daisy's soul like a flood, the thought that Jesus loves His people; that she was His little child and that He loved her; and all His wisdom and power and tenderness were round her and would keep her.
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