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Updated: June 13, 2025
If the opportunity were not denied me here, I should like to give some account of Basil Ransom's interior, of certain curious persons of both sexes, for the most part not favourites of fortune, who had found an obscure asylum there; some picture of the crumpled little table d'hôte, at two dollars and a half a week, where everything felt sticky, which went forward in the low-ceiled basement, under the conduct of a couple of shuffling negresses, who mingled in the conversation and indulged in low, mysterious chuckles when it took a facetious turn.
Ransom's regular battery was assigned to duty with this brigade. The detachments from the First division were all consolidated under Major Hall of the Sixth New York; those from the Second division under Major Taylor of the First Maine. The aggregate strength of Davies's command was 1,817 officers and men, exclusive of the artillery. The total strength of Kilpatrick's command was about 3,500.
"But on that side I have heard it remarked, that twelve thousand wagons would have been required to carry those provisions to the battlefield. I do not know if the calculation was correct." Mr. De Saussure's face clouded for an instant. My father seemed to be pondering. Ransom's frowns grew more deep. "What side are you on, Daisy?" he repeated. "She is on her own side, of course," my mother said.
"Well! and look at the other things! We want an army to eat them. There is a dog, to begin with." Theresa said it with comical coolness; but Eloise screamed, as a little spaniel was perceived to be snuffing round the tablecloth. "It's Ransom's dog! Run, Daisy, run, and keep him off. Just stay there and keep watch of him, or he'll be all over everything. Daisy, run!"
And her enjoyment of the situation becoming acute, there broke from her lips a shrill, unfamiliar, troubled sound, which performed the office of a laugh, a laugh of triumph, but which, at a distance, might have passed almost as well for a wail of despair. It rang in Ransom's ears as he quickly turned away. It was Mrs.
"Then I wouldn't come here any more with her or anywhere else." "I don't," said Daisy. "I don't go with her, or with anybody else much. Only I go with Sam and the pony." "Where's Ransom? Don't he go with you?" "O Ransom's older, you know; and he's a boy." "Ransom don't know his advantages. This is pleasant, Daisy. Now let us see. What were you and I about?" "You were telling me something, Capt.
The change that had taken place in the object of Basil Ransom's merciless devotion since the episode in New York was, briefly, just this change that the words he had spoken to her there about her genuine vocation, as distinguished from the hollow and factitious ideal with which her family and her association with Olive Chancellor had saddled her these words, the most effective and penetrating he had uttered, had sunk into her soul and worked and fermented there.
"The dinner the things that had been taken out of the hampers and were spread on the tablecloth, where we dined." "Watch for fear the fishes would carry them off?" "No, sir, but Fido; Ransom's dog; he was running about." "Oh! Well? " "I kept Fido off, but I could not keep Ransom " Daisy said, low. "He was taking things." "And why should he not?" said Mrs. Randolph, coldly.
Ransom's weather-tanned face had taken on a deeper flush, and there was a questioning look in Roscoe's eyes, as though he were striving to look through a veil of clouds to a picture just beyond his vision. "If most of us believed as you believe," he said at last, "civilization would end. We would progress no farther." "And this civilization," said Ransom, "can there not be too much of it?
In this position, we lay during the night, sheltering ourselves as well as we could from the enemy's two works on the road, which kept up a constant fire until nearly day break. Just before day a strong line of skirmishers was thrown out before the brigade under command of Captain Durham, Q.M., 29 N.C.T., but acting temporarily on General Ransom's staff. The Assault.
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