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"'Gettysburg and Little Round Top," was the response. "Mr. Vosburgh is out, and left word that you should linger near till he returned and then come again." "I cannot do that. It would not be safe for either him or me. He does not realize. Can you be trusted?" "I am his daughter." "Say, then, terrible work up town. The orphan asylum sacked and burned. Many private residences also.
She felt that it would be well not to be over-hasty in showing resentment, but if possible to let him reveal his plans and character fully. She listened quietly, therefore, without show of approval or disapproval, as he began in reply to her questioning glance. "I am going to be frank with you this evening, Miss Vosburgh. The time has come when I should be so. Has not Mrs.
"I sha'n't be poaching on your grounds, shall I?" "Miss Vosburgh honors me with her friendship, nothing more." "Is it so great an honor?" "I esteem it as such." "Who are they, anyway?" "Well, as a family I regard them as my equals, and Miss Marian as my superior." "Oh come, Strahan, gossip about them a little." The officer burst out laughing.
Vosburgh suggested that these details were too terrific for his daughter's nerves, but she interrupted him almost sternly, saying: "No, papa, I intend to know just what my friends have passed through. I feel that it is due to them, and, if I cannot hear quietly, I am not worthy to be their friend. I can listen to words when Southern girls can listen to bullets.
O Miss Vosburgh, my heart just stands still with dread when I think of what may soon happen. Arthur had become so manly, and we were so proud of him! He has written me more than once of your influence, and I had hoped that the way might open for our better acquaintance." "Do you think the crisis may come to-night?" Marian asked, with quivering lips. "Yes, it may come now at any hour.
What kind of a man would he be should he reply, 'Just as you say, my dear; I've no conscience, or will of my own'? I do not believe that any girl in the land will suffer more than I when those I love are in danger, but I'd rather die than blockade the path of duty with my love." "Yes, and some day when you are fatherless you may repent those words," sobbed Mrs. Vosburgh.
You may think, if you do not say it, that it is no affair of mine; but with my father, whom I love better than life, ready at any moment to give his life for a cause, I cannot patiently see utter indifference to that cause in one who seeks my society." "I think your feelings are very natural, Miss Vosburgh, nor do I resent your censure.
"I will now tell Marian of my plans, so far as it is wise for her to know them, and then, God help and protect us all! Come, I wish you to lie down at once, for every moment of rest may be needed." When they descended, Mr. Vosburgh said to his daughter, laughingly, "Mr. Merwyn is under orders, and can have nothing more to say to you to-night."
Observing this eager quest he sprung out upon him from a doorway and said, "If you try that again I'll shoot you as I would a dog." The fellow now took counsel of discretion. Going round the block to make sure he was not observed, Merwyn reached the residence of Mr. Vosburgh just as that gentleman was rising from his breakfast, and received a cordial welcome.
Vosburgh had rented for his summer residence a pretty cottage on the banks of the Hudson. The region abounded in natural beauty and stately homes. There was an infusion of Knickerbocker blood in the pre-eminently elect ones of society, and from these there was a gradual shading off in several directions, until by some unwritten law the social line was drawn.
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