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Frances had stood supporting herself, by the back of a chair, during this dialogue, catching, in breathless anxiety, every syllable as it was uttered; her color changed rapidly; her limbs shook under her; until, with desperate resolution, she inquired,-"Is any officer hurt on - the - on either side?""Yes," answered the man, cavalierly, "these Southern youths are so full of mettle, that it's seldom we fight but one or two gets knocked over; one of the wounded, who came up before the troops, told me that Captain Singleton was killed, and Major Dunwoodie - "Frances heard no more, but fell lifeless in the chair behind her.
"Everything, my dear madam, everything," answered the soldier cheerfully.
"I thought they were going the wrong way," answered the subaltern.
At first, indignation at the irony of his comrade kept him silent; but, suddenly changing his purpose, he answered the applicant with a good-natured smile,-"I judge not.
But under whose care was the sick man during his indisposition?""Under mine," answered Katy, with an air of a little importance.
"Your good opinion," answered the peddler, with emotion.
But to relieve the embarrassment of this delay, the clergyman had put sundry questions to the bridegroom; one of which was by no means answered to his satisfaction.
His appeal to Mr. Wharton, for the propriety of this decision, was answered affirmatively, as it would have been negatively, had the question been put in a manner to lead to such a result.
Recovering himself, however, on the instant, he answered with a suavity that became so happy a man,-"Death! - as such an offense merits," he said.
"'Tis fever," answered Frances; "see how glassy is her eye, and look at her cheek, how flushed."
Notwithstanding the unusual burden that Roanoke sustained, he got over the ground with great rapidity, and the distance between the cart of Mrs. Flanagan and the chariot of Miss Peyton was passed in a manner that, however it answered the intentions of the trooper, in no degree contributed to the comfort of his companion.
But Frances answered not.
He answered gravely, and with some reserve,-"The commander in chief had left his quarters."
A third voice, however, spoke,-"Such a denunciation would have driven many women into fits; but it has answered the purpose well enough, as it is."
"That time is now," she answered, extending her hand, unable any longer to feign a displeasure that she did not feel.
Course you would!"Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?""Why, ain't _that_ work?"Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly:"Well, maybe it is, and maybe it ain't.
Then the howl of a far-off dog rose on the night air, and was answered by a fainter howl from a remoter distance.
It was answered from under the bluff.
Tom whistled twice more; these signals were answered in the same way.
Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
Huck's scared voice answered in a low tone:"Please let me in!
Instantly Tom answered it, and leading Becky by the hand, started groping down the corridor in its direction.
This question was not entirely answered in Huck's slow mind before he found himself pushed, along with Tom, into Mrs.
"And there's my mother," said I, "I doubt she'd never let me go.""Ah! well, she'll never be asked to now," he answered, and hobbled on upon his way.
"Jack was telling me that you were studying to be a doctor," said she."But oh, how hard it must be, and how long it must take before one can gather so much learning as that!""It takes me long enough," Jim answered ruefully; "but I'll beat it yet."
Now if I were to do it, or Jim Horscroft, it would look as if we were playing the fool, and the girls would have laughed at us; but with him it seemed to go with his style of face and fashion of speech, so that one came at last to look for it: for when he spoke to my mother or Cousin Edie--and he was never backward in speaking--it would always be with a bow and a look as if it would hardly be worth their while to listen to what he had to say, and when they answered he would put on a face as though every word they said was to be treasured up and remembered for ever.
"So I have," answered the Major.
When Percy and his men were over the Marches, then the people would drive some of their cattle into the yard of the tower, shut up the big gate, and light a fire in the brazier at the top, which would be answered by all the other Peel towers, until the lights would go twinkling up to the Lammermuir Hills, and so carry the news on to the Pentlands and to Edinburgh.
"I am well enough," answered the Major; "but they will never give me a place unless there is war, and there will be no more war in my time."
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