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Updated: June 9, 2025
He laughingly shouldered his apparatus, and walked by her side through the June sunshine and shade, she in the main keeping up the conversation. At last he said, rather abruptly: "Miss Vosburgh, you do not look on like a child, rather, with more intelligence than very many society girls possess; and will you forgive me? you defend yourself like a genuine American woman.
"Miss Vosburgh," he continued, hesitatingly, "when I first entered this room I did not understand your true worth and superiority, but a sense of these has been growing on me from that hour to this. Perhaps I was not as sincere as I I should have been, and you were too clever not to know it. Will you listen to me patiently?"
Vosburgh, he felt that he had been treated with a degree of confidence that was even generous. But he knew that from Mr. Vosburgh he did not receive full trust, that there were certain topics which each touched upon with restraint. Even with the father he was made to feel that he had reached the limit of their friendly relations.
"Well, sir, Miss Vosburgh was a better sentinel than I, and heard the first approach of the ruffians. I was sleeping like old Rip himself. She wakened me. A shot or two appeared to create a panic, and they disappeared like a dream, as suddenly as they had come." "Just listen to him, papa!" cried the girl, now reassured by her father's presence, and recovering from her nervous shock.
"I think you bear the strain of anxiety wonderfully." "I am trying to retrieve myself." "You have retrieved yourself, Miss Vosburgh. You have become a genuine soldier. It didn't take long to make a veteran of you." "So much for a good example, you see." "Oh, well, it's easy enough for a man to face danger. Think how many thousands do it as a matter of course."
Vosburgh, looking at his watch, "and shall have to hear your story at second hand from Marian. Rest assured," he added, laughing, "it will lose nothing as she tells it this evening." "And I order you, Captain Blauvelt, to make this house your headquarters when you are in town," said Marian, giving his hand a warm pressure in parting.
Marian was never permitted to give that kind of encouragement which compromises a girl, and Mrs. Vosburgh felt that there her duty ceased. All that could be conveyed by the eloquent eye, the inflection of tones, and in a thousand other ways, was unnoted, and beyond her province. The evening of our choice is an early one in June.
I merely had one of the fingers of my left hand shot away, and a scratch on my shoulder." "But have these wounds been dressed lately?" Mr. Vosburgh asked, gravely. "And have you had your rations this evening?" Marian added, with the glimmer of a smile. "Thanks, yes to both questions. I arrived this afternoon, and at once saw a good surgeon.
Oh that I had a chance to prove that I am, at least, not a coward! In some way I shall prove it before many weeks pass." At dinner, that evening, Mr. Vosburgh smiled significantly at Marian, and said, "Who do you think called on me to-day?" "Mr. Merwyn," she said, promptly. "You are right. He came to offer " "Money," contemptuously completing her father's sentence.
"All my friends soon learn that I am stubborn in my opinions," was her laughing reply, as her father joined them. Mr. Erkmann on the next street north was a sturdy, loyal man, and he permitted Mr. Vosburgh and Merwyn to pass out through his house, so that to any one who was watching the impression would be given that at least two men were in the house. Burdened with a sense of danger, Mr.
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