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And again Mohun's brows were knit together. Then his bitter expression changed to laughter. "What took place at Warrenton!" I said, looking at him intently. "Exactly, my dear friend it was a real comedy. Only a poignard played a prominent part in the affair, and you know poignards belong exclusively to tragedy." Mohun uttered these words with his old reckless satire.
It was she who, contrary to the advice of her elders, had insisted on bringing her into the house; she had allowed temptation to be set in her way, and had not taken sufficient pains to strengthen her principles; and how could she do otherwise than feel guilty of all Esther's faults, and of those into which she had led Adeline? On Mr. Mohun's return Ada was interrogated.
An hour afterward I had dined with Mohun at his head-quarters, in the woods; mounted our horses; and were making our way toward the Rapidan to inspect the pickets. This consumed two hours. We found nothing stirring. As sunset approached, we retraced our steps toward Chancellorsville. I had accepted Mohun's invitation to spend the night with him.
"The fact is, colonel," he said, "that I inadvertently mentioned my appointment with Swartz without reflecting how singular it must appear to you, unless I gave you some explanation. But I am quite at my ease with you you are a friend of Colonel Mohun's and I will explain, as much of my business as propriety will permit.
Maurice Mohun's first words when he found the compartment free for a tete-a-tete with his brother. 'All's well that ends well, was the brief reply. 'Well, indeed! Mary would not have thought so. To which the colonel had nothing to say. 'It serves me out, his brother went on presently.
It was difficult to recognize in this gay cavalier, the pale, bitter and melancholy cynic of the previous June. "Look, Surry!" exclaimed Mohun, "we are driving our friend Kilpatrick! Stuart is down on him like a lion!" "You are driving a personal friend of yours, besides!" I said. "Yonder he is Colonel Darke!" Mohun's smile disappeared suddenly.
Half a year ago the Flights had seemed to the young Whites angelic and infallible, and perhaps expectations had been founded on their patronage; but there had since been a shadow of disappointment, and altogether Kalliope was less disposed to believe that my Lady was correct in pronouncing Miss Mohun's cherished society as 'dissentish, and only calculated for low servant girls and ladies who wished to meddle in families.
My affection for him is of the same endearing nature: and we only crossed sabres in jest a mere fencing bout for amusement. We would not hurt each other for worlds!" And Mohun's mustache curled with laughter. There was something restless and sinister in it. Suddenly his face grew paler, and his eyes were half closed.
Mohun's property was good, but he wished to avoid unnecessary display and expense, and he expected his daughters to follow out these views, keeping a wise check upon Emily, by looking over her accounts every Saturday, and turning a deaf ear when she talked of the age of the drawing-room carpet, and the ugliness of the old chariot.
Lord Rotherwood talked intelligibly and sensibly, and Mr. Mohun's neighbour at dinner had a voice which he could hear. Lily's pleasure was not less than her sister's, though of a different kind.
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