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He outlines the policy, so artfully laid out, for the cut-off Western contingent. In foaming wine, the fearless coterie pledges the South till the rafters ring again. The "Bonnie Blue Flag" rings out, as it does in many Western households, with "Dixie's" thrilling strains. The summing up of Hardin is concise: "We are to hold this State until we have orders to open hostilities.
"Did he leave no message for me?" "He didn't leave a message for nobody." "Did he happen to say to what part of the South he was bound?" "He said he was going back to Dixie's Land, and didn't say no more." That was all. His departure had been as abrupt and unlocked for as his arrival.
The golden age of the South had departed; with John C. Calhoun passed away the last really commanding figure among Dixie's statesmen, and from him to Jefferson Davis is a long step downward. Davis's early life was romantic enough.
It was the day his lawyer at Carlton had written him that he was a free man. Surely, he argued, he would have the right to inform her of such an important fact, after all that had passed between them, simply as a friend, if nothing more. He left the store early in the afternoon, and on his way home, and with a chill of doubt on him, he stopped at Dixie's cottage. Mrs.
No matter Chad had the paper in his pocket that would save two lives and he would be on time even if Dixie broke her noble heart, but he could not get the words out of his brain even Dixie's hoofs beat them out ceaselessly: "The wires are cut the wires are cut!"
I've got it all mixed up." Henley's wide-staring eyes sought Dixie's face. She was pale, still, and mute. "Well, I've got to be going," she said, in a quavering voice to old Jason. "I haven't had a chance, Mr. Wrinkle, to ask you how Mrs. Henley likes it over there. I hope your wife is well.
Hart had said about Dixie's desire to sell her farm, and a slow twinkle of a set purpose began to burn in his eyes. "It might work," he said to himself. "Anyways, that debt notion has got to be got out of the way or I'll never make any progress.
I understand there's a gypsy camp in the edge o' town, and they are the dickens on a swap." "Hold on a minute!" Long called out, as Henley was moving off, his hat lifted. "I want to see you." Henley pulled up a few yards away, behind Dixie's back, and Long joined him. "Are you going to leave me the bag to hold?" Long asked, in a tone of blended gratification and nervousness.
"What the" began Steve, when the man from Tennessee took up his scythe and slouched away from the group by the tree. "Didn't yer know no better 'n that, yer thunderin' fool? Can't yer see a hole in a grindstun 'thout it's hung on yer nose?" "What hev I done?" asked Steve, as if dumfounded. "Done? Where 've yer ben, that yer don't know Dixie's wife 's left him?" "Where 've I ben?
Henley, his hands clinched, the eyes of an infuriated animal in his head, his great mouth hanging open, stood over the fallen man. "Thank God, oh, thank God!" It was Dixie's voice behind him, and he turned to see her at the edge of the road, her face as white as death could have made it, her hands convulsively clasped in front of her.
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