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We took Staunton in our way and brought her and Clara along Traverse!" he said going to the door "bring in your mother." And the next instant Traverse entered with the wife of Major Warfield upon his arm. Old Hurricane started forward to meet her, exclaiming in a broken voice: "Marah, my dear Marah, God may forgive me, but can you can you ever do so?"
As young Staunton had come to the conclusion, the servant opened the door, and, with a voice which seemed intended rather for a signal, than merely the announcing of a visit, said, "His Reverence, sir, is coming up stairs to wait upon you." "For God's sake, hide yourself, Jeanie," exclaimed Staunton, "in that dressing closet!"
When tea was over, George, who had come in, and was as usual devoting himself to his mother, tried to coax her to come out with him a little. "No, not to-night," said Dorothy suddenly. "I have something very special to say to Mrs. Staunton perhaps you would stay and listen too, George?" George did not mind being called by his Christian name by Dorothy.
The father of George Staunton had been bred a soldier, and during service in the West Indies, had married the heiress of a wealthy planter. By this lady he had an only child, George Staunton, the unhappy young, man who has been so often mentioned in this narrative.
A thin vapour of smoke was by this time rising from the companion, accompanied by a strong and quite unmistakable smell of fire; and in a minute or two more Captain Staunton, in his shirt sleeves, appeared on deck and called forward for more water. "There is rather more of it than we at first thought, lads," he said; "but stick steadily to your work and we'll conquer it yet."
Milroy also pushed eastward from Cheat Mountain summit, in which high region winter still lingered, and had made his way through snows and rains to McDowell, ten miles east of Monterey, at the crossing of Bull-Pasture River, where he threatened Staunton. But Banks was thought to be in too exposed a position, and was directed by the War Department to fall back to Strasburg.
Shots were fired and swords drawn on both sides; Sir George Staunton offered the bravest resistance till he fell, as there was too much reason to believe, by the hand of a son, so long sought, and now at length so unhappily met. While Butler was half-stunned with this intelligence, the hoarse voice of Knockdunder added to his consternation.
In the arsenal at the Institute were large stores of firearms of old patterns, which were hauled away from time to time to supply the troops. I, with five others of the College company, was detailed as a guard to a convoy of Wagons, loaded with these arms, as far as Staunton. We were all about the same size, and with one exception members of the same class.
Johnson turned impatiently away from him with an ugly frown upon his brow, which however vanished in an instant upon his finding our two friends at his elbow. "See here, stranger," he said, passing his arm within that of Captain Staunton, and drawing him toward the hatchway, "I want to show you what I'm going to do. See them beams?
“We also have a general and his aid-de-camp, whom we took in the Colon, a nice old boy and very chirpy. The captain, of course, takes the loss of his ship to heart very much, but the general and his aid seem as cheerful as possible. I suppose they think ‘it’s none of their funeral.’ “I stored the general in Staunton’s room, Staunton going to Santiago in a torpedo-boat to send the news.
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