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On his own behalf it must be acknowledged that he did love the girl, as well perhaps as he was capable of loving any one; but he had found out many particulars as to Mr. Wharton's money before he had allowed himself to love her. As soon as Mrs.
Meanwhile General Early was busy at Staunton, but not knowing my objective point, he had ordered the return of Echol's brigade from southwestern Virginia for the protection of Lynchburg, directed Lomax's cavalry to concentrate at Pond Gap for the purpose of harassing me if I moved toward Lynchburg, and at the same time marched Wharton's two brigades of infantry, Nelson's artillery, and Rosser's cavalry to Waynesboro', whither he went also to remain till the object of my movement was ascertained.
"There he is!" cried Marcella, involuntarily, with a pulse of excitement, as Wharton's light young figure made its way through the crowd. He sat down on a corner seat below the gangway and put on his hat.
Sitgreaves did not return in season to partake of Jenny, but he was in time to receive his fair proportion of Captain Wharton's present. "A song, a song from Captain Lawton!" cried two or three of the party in a breath, on observing the failure of some of the points of good-fellowship in the trooper. "Silence, for the song of Captain Lawton."
Why should these people have all the gay clothes, the flowers, the jewels, the delicate food all the delight and all the leisure? And those, nothing! Her soul rose against what she saw as she stood there, going through her part. Wharton's very words, every inflection of his voice was in her ears, playing chorus to the scene.
But that which, in the judgment of one faction, more than half redeemed all Wharton's faults, seemed to the other faction to aggravate them all. The opinion which the Tories entertained of him is expressed in a single line written after his death by the ablest man of that party; "He was the most universal villain that ever I knew."
"Never, never more beautiful!" flashed through Wharton's mind, "with that knit, strenuous brow that tragic scorn for a base world that royal gait " Aloud he said: "I have done my best privately among the people I can get at, and I thought, before I go up to town to-night you know Parliament meets on Monday?
"It will be hardly safe for you to go to Mr. Wharton's." "Why?" "He will probably think you likely to go there, and be lying in wait somewhere about." "But I must go to Mr. Wharton," said Frank. "I must tell him this story." "It will be safer to write." "The housekeeper, Mrs. Bradley, or John Wade, will get hold of the letter and suppress it. I don't want to put them on their guard."
"You British think you own the town and can order us about like slaves!" was the fiery reply. "Tut! tut! Wharton! Don't get into a fight. You are hotheaded." "I will not be insulted by any interloper, even if he wears a red coat." Wharton's face was flushed with anger, and his eyes sparkled with passion. "Where will a note reach you?" Captain Nevitt was in a flame of anger as well.
'Your turn now, Father! Wharton's face was flushed with the fire of his first embrace. There was an exultant ring to his voice as he abdicated in the other's favor. He had no doubt as to the result. Neither had Grace, for a smile played about her mouth as she faced the priest. 'My child, he began, 'my heart bleeds for you. It is a pretty dream, but it cannot be. 'And why, Father?
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