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Ancrum's heart since the days of their first acquaintance at Sunday-school David fled him altogether, and would have none of his counsel or his friendship. The alienation of the Grieves made another and a bitter drop in the minister's rising cup of failure.
Ancrum's face softened. 'Why, I'll be bound you have to go to work pretty early, Davy? 'Seven o'clock, sir, I take the shutters down. But I get an hour and a half first, and three hours in the evening. This winter I've got through the "Aeneid," and Horace's "Epistles" and "Ars Poetica."
That glittering prince of circumstance as he had once foreseen him, was still enshrined in memory and fancy; but the real man was knit to the cripple's inmost heart. Another observer, perhaps, might have wondered at Ancrum's sense of difference and disillusion. For David after all had made a mark.
It was a relief to her now an escape from an invading sweetness of which her little heart was almost afraid to sit down and plan how she would protect David from that grasping woman and her unspeakable husband. 'David, my dear fellow! said Ancrum's weak voice. He rose with difficulty from his seat by the fire.
But the eyes with their irresistible intensity and force were the same. In them the minister's youth he was not yet thirty-five still spoke, as from a last stronghold in a failing realm. They had a strange look too, the look as of a secret life, not for the passer-by. David smiled at Ancrum's last remark, and for a moment or two looked into the fire without speaking.
Anyone could see that, with the returning spring, in spite of her friendship and Ancrum's, he felt his loneliness almost intolerable. It was clear, too, as his manhood advanced, that he was naturally drawn to women, naturally dependent on them.
At Ancrum's ferry on the Congaree, Greene, in advance of his army, joined Marion and Washington, the latter with his cavalry, the former with four hundred mounted militia; and, at the head of these two corps, pressing down the Orangeburg road, on the 6th of July, he succeeded in passing Lord Rawdon.
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