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You will be too good to live among them Yankees; you will have to come back here, I reckon." "No; I'm going to marry and settle down," said Rhodes, jestingly. "Maybe I'll come back here sometime just to receive your thanks for showing you how benighted you were before I came, and for the advice I gave you." "He is trying to marry a rich woman," said Ferdy, at which Rhodes flushed a little.
"They are only Yankees," mamma said quietly, but with a concentration of scorn impossible to give in words. "They know how to fight," I could not help saying. "Yes, but we do not know how to be overcome! Do you think it, Daisy?" "Mamma there was New Orleans and Vicksburg and Gettysburg; and now in Virginia " "Yes, now; these battles; you will see how they will turn.
"I cannot stand those Yankees they do exaggerate so terribly. One cannot depend on a word they say." I made no reply, for it struck me that Mr Johnson himself did at times, as he would have said, rather overstate facts. I made the remark to Perigal. "Well, boy, the boatswain is like most of us," he answered; "we don't see our own faults.
"The last thing they thought about was any Yankees getting this far. Do you know what they were gathered here for?" He shook his head. "It was intended for a wedding party, until we butted in." "Hell! not that pretty girl back in there?" "Yes," for somehow I felt I had better tell him enough of the truth to make the situation clear. He was an honest, clear-headed fellow, and I needed help.
No soldier or sailor of any other country, saving and excepting those damned Yankees, can stand against them they would be utterly overpowered their hearts would fail them they would either be cut down thrust through, or they would turn and flee.
In Ireland, that crime deserved hanging as a punishment; and I do not know what I would do to any body I would detect in opening my letters, and pilfering my secrets," said he, raising himself up. "O, my dear Paul," said the old maid, perceiving her imprudence, "I only guessed at the contents of your letters. We Yankees are great at guessing, you know.
I am rejoiced to hear it. It was reported he was among the slain.” “He was desperately wounded,” answered Calhoun, “but he did not die, and he is now a prisoner in the hands of the Yankees. Uncle Dick is a hero; but as for that traitor cousin of mine, I hate him!” and again Calhoun’s brow grew dark. “I have no reason to love him,” laughed Morgan, “but I cannot help admiring him.
He said that he and his brethren would fight the Yankees in this world, and if God permit, chase their frightened ghosts in the next, through fire and brimstone.
She supplied a sub-committee upon which he was serving not directly, but through him with figures, with reports, books, and papers, so that he received special commendations; a praise that piqued as well as pleased him, because it implied a certain surprise that he was able to do it. "The damned Yankees!" he sneered. "They think they've got the brains of the nation."
Somehow she is found by this Madame Delchasse. Monsieur and Madame Delchasse, they have once together the res'traw. Monsieur is very fond of the escargot a la Bourgogne, and one day he eat too many escargot. Madame, she run the res'traw, sell great many meal to the dam-yankees; sell the cook-book to the dam- yankees aussi. Thus she get rich very rich, and buy the house on l'Esplanade.
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