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"I agree with you entirely, sir," returned Sempland, smiling it was the part of wisdom for a captain to agree with a general always, and the way of prudence was the path of pleasure in this instance. "Captain Sempland," said Beauregard, "your orders need not be carried out until to-morrow.
"That is the happiest of all solutions, sir," said Sempland, taking Fanny Glen's hands. "I won't be married simply to save my life," said the girl. "Of course not," said the general. "Yet either you must be court-martialled or Mr. Sempland will be." "I I might do it to save his life, sir," she said, blushing furiously again.
"Miss Fanny," he began gently the war had brought the general and the brave girl very close together "I was coming over to see you in a little while. You have shown yourself a brave little woman many times. You need all your courage now." "Yes, General," said the girl, faintly, "I know." "You have sustained a terrible loss." "Is is Mr. Sempland ?" "He is well enough at present.
"Thank you! thank you!" exclaimed Fanny Glen, gratefully, with boundless relief in her voice. By this time she was as close to Sempland as she could get, and entirely unconscious of what he was doing, the latter had thrown his arm protectingly around her waist. "Wait, Miss Glen," said the general, severely, lifting his hand and checking her further speech, "you cannot think to escape scot free.
She was too conscious of that stern iron figure. Yet she would have given worlds to say "yes" to Lacy's plea. "Choose, Miss Glen," said Lacy, at last. It was hard for him to wait for anything. "You stand between us, you see. I warn you if you do not take me, you will take Sempland. Look at him, " he smiled satirically, "he always gets what he wants.
"Will be blown up, please God, if all goes well." The girl put her face in her hands as if to shut out some dreadful picture. She kept them there for a few seconds, then she lifted her head and looked unsteadily from the severe face of the general to the cold, disdainful countenance of Sempland. The man she loved shrank away from her. "Useless!
Miss Fanny Glen's especial detestation was an assumption of authority on the part of the other sex. If there was a being on earth to whom she would not submit, it was to a masterful man; such a man as, if appearances were a criterion, Rhett Sempland at that moment assumed to be.
"I am all that he says, and more, too." "But look at what you have done." "But little, after all. I heard you reproaching Sempland for what he had not done when I came in. That isn't fair. No braver man lives than Rhett Sempland. Why, did it not take courage to defy me, to tell me to my face that I was a scoundrel, a blackguard?
They won't have a chance for their lives. It is appalling to think of! I cannot bear it! "Let them lift the blockade then," coolly returned the young officer; "it is a chance of war. Don't waste your sympathy on them. Bestow it nearer at hand. Sempland starts in half an hour. Won't you see him before he goes?" "Yes," whispered the girl, "if you will send him to me." "There is no time to lose.
The two had been great friends once, but a year or two before the outbreak of the war they had drifted apart. Sempland did not envy Lacy any talents that he might possess, for he was quite confident that the only thing he himself lacked had been opportunity Fate had not been kind to him, but the war was not yet over.
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