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"The lad of forty-odd!" sneered Duganne, unnoticed, apparently, by the aged lady, however, at the moment, but not without amusing other hearers by this sally. Dr. Durand was especially delighted. "For he is a boy at heart," she said later, "this same Victor Favraud of ours," gazing reprovingly around.
The Union troops stationed there had retired to Bayou Boeuf, and so at daylight on the 24th, without feeling or firing a single shot, the united guards of the two stations, numbering 433 officers and men, with four guns, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Duganne, of the 176th New York, promptly surrendered to the first bold summons of a handful of Green's adventurous scouts riding five miles ahead of their column.
This treatise was occasioned by the book "The War in Europe, its remote and recent causes" written by J. H. Duganne, and published a few days ago by R. M. DeWitt, Nassau St., No. 60, New York.
"By-the-by," digressed Duganne, weary of discussion, "hear that old fellow outside, how he is going on, Favraud,
Greeley's feeling regarding the weekly adjournment, one curious thing was reported: There was a member from New York of a literary turn for whom the great editor had done much in bringing his verses and other productions before the public a certain Mr. Duganne; but it happened that, on one of the weekly motions to adjourn, Mr. Duganne had voted in the affirmative, and, as a result, Mr.
T. Wentworth Higginson, Boston, Mass. James Russell Lowell, Cambridge, Mass. J. A. Saxton, Deerfield, Mass. Francis George Shaw, West Roxbury, Mass. John G. Whittier, Amesbury, Mass. Other contributors were: E. P. Grant of Ohio. A. J. H. Duganne of Philadelphia. The Brook Farm writers were: George Ripley. John S. Dwight. Charles A. Dana. Lewis K. Ryckman.
At last she spoke, addressing her remarks to me, as though the careless words I had hazarded had just been spoken, and the attention of her hearers undiverted by divers absurdities among others the affected gambols of Duganne anxious to place himself in an agreeable aspect before both of his inamoratas, past and present. "I do not agree with you, mademoiselle.
Your mind is too much engrossed by the bubbles of politics, you would spoil all my materials, and realize the old proverb that 'the devil sends cooks. But go to work like a good fellow, and carve the dish before you; by that time the soup will be removed. "Here are croquets too, as I live," said Duganne, lifting a cover before him and peeping in, then returning it quietly to its place.
"Yes, hear him, and be edified," was the sarcastic response of Favraud to Duganne, who took no other notice, even if he understood the point, than to lead the way to the portico, where swung the cage of the jolly bird in question; and, headed by Madame Grambeau leaning on her cane, we followed simultaneously, with the exception of Major Favraud, who continued at the table with his cigar and cognac-flask, in sullen and solitary state.
Now, set Marion a good example, and she will, in turn, enliven me later." So adjured, I consented to drive to the Fifteen-mile House with Major Favraud, and Duganne glided into the coach in my stead, to take my place and play vis-
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