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So Etta Sydney Bamborough the Princess Howard Alexis came back after all to her husband, lying in a nameless grave in the churchyard by the Volga at Tver. Within the white walls beneath the shadow of the great spangled cupola they await the Verdict, almost side by side.
While at Sonoma, Fremont and his comrades had declared the independence of California and adopted the Bear Flag, which was proffered to Commodore Sloat and the Star Spangled Banner hoisted over the camp. As the Mexican General, Castro, was known to be at Los Angeles, Fremont asked for and obtained a ship on which his force was taken to San Diego.
The Virgin kneels in a white robe, spangled with golden flowers; and Christ, who is here represented rather as the Father than the Son, crowns her as queen of heaven. The composition by Albert Durer, which concludes his fine series of wood-cuts, the "Life, of the Virgin" is very grand and singular.
Sitting close to him in the darkness of the carriage, it ought to have been easy for her to find the needed word; but the barrier of his indifference hung between them, and street after street slipped by, and the spangled blackness of the river unrolled itself beneath their wheels, before she leaned over to touch his hand. "What is it, my dear?"
We shall not then be able to resist the impetuosity of their intrusion, nor put a stoppage to their entering in at all, whatever regions, domiciles, or mansions of the spangled firmament they shall have any mind to see, to stay in, to travel through for their recreation. All the celestial signs together, with the constellations of the fixed stars, will jointly be at their devotion then.
"Nobody!" she laughed, pointing to the newspapers spangled with her portraits. Ferriday snorted, "Paid for by Jim Dyckman's money." "What do you mean Jim Dyckman's money?"
She seemed to hear now the notes of retreat to see the motionless regiment then the evening gun and the band playing the Star Spangled Banner and the flag never touching the ground coming down for the night. She answered it in the things it woke in her heart: those ideals of service, courage, fidelity which it had left her. To make them real to him would make him see the army differently.
It was a splendid May morning, the rippling waters were spangled with gold in the sunlight, the young foliage showed delicately green against the cloudless azure.
"Really glad?" "Yes." "Truthfully, really, honestly glad?" "Yes." "Well, so am I," said she. She released his hand. "Now go and play me something. I want something soothing after Venetia play me Chopin's Spianato we used to be fond of that." Now the only thing that Jones had ever played in his life was the Star Spangled Banner and that with one finger Chopin's Spianato! "No," he said.
Short, slight, and strange rather than pretty, with her delicate face, her sea-green eyes, her small quivering nose, her rather large and over-ruddy mouth, which was parted so that one could see her superb teeth, she that day wore a sky-blue gown spangled with silver; and she had silver bracelets on her arms and a silver circlet in her pale brown hair, which rained down in curls and frizzy, straggling locks as though waving in a perpetual breeze.
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