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Little souvenirs which the soldiers had picked up on the battlefield, and which they treasured highly, hoping to take them home as mementoes of their battles, were sold to any one who would buy. As a matter of fact some of the soldiers were prepared to part with anything and everything in which they were standing in order to get food.
The expedition was entirely successful; took a few prisoners, returned home and were dismissed in October, 1782. This was the last service of a brave soldier, who fought long, and fought well, for the freedom of his country. Major Abram Forney died on the 22nd day of July, 1849, in the ninety-first year of his age. His only surviving son, Capt. Among the curious revolutionary mementoes that Capt.
'It is a stiff-necked gen'ration an' sorely perverse a lot. "The stage jolts along two or three miles, an' nothin' more bein' said. The black-coat gent he groans occasionally, which worries Texas; an' the two infants, gettin' restless, comes tumblin' over onto Cherokee an' is searchin' of his pockets for mementoes. Which this is about as refreshin' to Cherokee as bein' burned at the stake.
Tread on it, and like the fuss-ball, it will break into dust. Sad and silent mementoes to the giddy traveller as he wanders on! Prostrate remnants of vegetable nature, how incontestably ye prove what we must all at last come to, and how plain your mouldering ruins show that the firmest texture avails us nought when Heaven wills that we should cease to be!—
For there were the letters that Marjorie had received from the animals, and other notes and pictures that had been sent to her, and many mementoes of those long days she had spent in bed. The beautiful book Uncle Steve had brought her at that time was suggested by its title, cut from the paper wrapper which had been on the book when it came.
"The internal evidence?" "Her calling him 'Mr. Aspern." "I don't see what that proves." "It proves familiarity, and familiarity implies the possession of mementoes, or relics. I can't tell you how that 'Mr. touches me how it bridges over the gulf of time and brings our hero near to me nor what an edge it gives to my desire to see Juliana. You don't say, 'Mr. Shakespeare."
How is he spending it just now? Does he talk in his sleep? Are there any mementoes of his past in his private boxes? Could he be surprised into admissions of his real character by some trick, such as bringing him face to face on a sudden with Sonia? Wouldn't that be worth seeing? Just like the end of a drama.
Since the brother of death daily haunts us with dying mementoes, and time that grows old in itself bids us hope no long duration; diuturnity is a dream and folly of expectation.... There is nothing strictly immortal but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
Together with the wood smoke, and the scents of tobacco and tea, there stole through the quiet room a redolence not of flowers or of women's perfumes, but, as it were, the essence of the mementoes on the walls and cabinets those souvenirs of old friendships and past attachments, or maybe of unconfessed infatuations and thwarted longings.
"There was a great city once which adopted that as her motto, people dig up mementoes of her sometimes from under the sands." Somerfield looked at her in an aggrieved fashion. "Well," he said, "I thought that this was to be an amusing luncheon party." "You should have talked more to Lady Grace," she answered.
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