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As soon as the fore-sail was set, Captain Staunton steered for the pinnace, with the intention of ordering her also to bear up, as well as to inquire whether they had seen either of the other boats.
The last night that I ever saw my dear father he spoke to me on this subject. He used to hate lady-nurses, but you won him over, Dorothy, and he said, if the time came, I could go with his blessing." "Then surely that settles the matter," exclaimed Dorothy. "I'll speak to Mrs. Staunton before I leave to-day." "Oh, no; don't! Mother seems quite happy and comfortable.
"If you go, Lance, I shall go with you," said Rex. Violet Dudley glanced quickly and somewhat appealingly at the last speaker, but she had too much spirit to say a word which would keep her lover away from the side of his friend when there was a possibility that that friend might stand in need of help. "I think I may as well go also," remarked Captain Staunton.
In the field and on the Staunton road all was commotion; wagons with their teams moving in double column up the road, negro teamsters clamouring with ashen looks, "Dose damn Yanks! Knowed we didn't see dat ghos' fer nothin' las' night!" Wagon masters shouted, guards and sentries looked townward with anxious eyes.
Now, Miss Staunton, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. How do you do? I am so glad to see you." Mrs. Harvey was not so impulsively glad as she had been the last time she saw Effie. The doctor's death the death he had died for her seemed removed into the background; her existence was absorbed in pleasure, in gayety and excitement.
All unwitting of this surging tide of indignation in the heart of his witness the Crown Counsel summoned her to the stand. Mr. Staunton's manner was exceedingly affable. "Your name, Madam?" he enquired. "Me name is it?" replied the witness. "An' don't ye know me name as well as I do mesilf?" Mr. Staunton smiled pleasantly.
Some miles in front we struck the Staunton and Winchester turn-pike, and at regular intervals the troops were halted for a few minutes' rest. Occasionally the bands struck up a march and the soldiers were ordered into line and to take up the step. So away down the valley we marched with banners flying, bands playing and the soldiers with a swinging step.
'And I can testify, said Rupert, 'that the description of the cart-horses at Dykelands is perfectly correct. But, Helen, is it true that your friend Dicky has been seized with a fit of martial ardour such as you describe? 'Yes, said Helen, 'he was very near enlisting, but it made his mother very unhappy, and Mrs. Staunton
The flank position on Elk Run, the occupation of which so suddenly brought up Banks, prevented him interposing between Jackson and Edward Johnson, and saved Staunton from capture, was a second; Front Royal, by seizing which he threatened Banks at Strasburg in flank and rear, compelling him to a hasty retreat, and bringing him to battle on ground which he had not prepared, a third; and the position at Port Republic, controlling the only bridge across the Shenandoah, and separating Shields from Frémont, a fourth.
This is the second time you have saved my child from certain death; and I shall never forget my obligations to you, though God alone knows whether I shall ever have an opportunity to repay them." "I say, mister, I wish you wouldn't have quite so much to say about God; it makes a chap feel uncomfortable," growled Dickinson. "Does it?" said Captain Staunton. "How is that?
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