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In the front rode the captain, side by side with his senior subaltern, apparently engaged in close conference, while the rear was brought up by a young cornet, humming an air, and thinking of the sweets of a straw bed after the fatigues of a hard day's duty.
"Then it struck you too?" said the
captain.
whose
captain
is as tough as a pepperidge log, and has as many lives as a cat!""Faith," said the subaltern, smiling in his turn, "the log may yet be split, and grimalkin lose his lives, if you often charge as madly as you did this morning.
"Come, come, Tom, you are a licensed joker, so I'll not feign anger with you," returned the captain, good-humoredly.
"Stop them!" roared the
captain.
"Yes, yes," said the captain, quickly, "the major is ever preaching morality to the youngsters, but he is a sly fellow in the main.
added the captain, eying it keenly.
"Hold!" roared the discomfited captain, raising himself with difficulty on his feet.
"Something so, I do believe," replied the captain, catching his breath, and speaking with difficulty.
"I should surely die if I could not," observed the captain, gravely.
"No!" roared the captain, in a voice that startled the disappointed sergeant.
"Zounds!" muttered the sleepy cornet in the rear, as he was nodding on his horse, "there is life in the captain, notwithstanding his tumble."
The troop continued its march; but the
captain
and his lieutenant dismounted, and, followed by the servant of the former, they proceeded slowly to the door of the cottage.
"I should imagine it to be the troop of
Captain
Lawton returning, did I not know the
captain
never uses the pistol, and that he dreadfully abuses the saber."
A few words from Mason explained the nature and manner of his
captain'
s hurts, and Miss Peyton cheerfully accorded the required accommodations.
While the room intended for the trooper was getting ready, and the doctor was giving certain portentous orders, the
captain
was invited to rest himself in the parlor.
The offer required no pressing, and in a few minutes the two were comfortably seated, and engaged in an employment that was only interrupted by an occasional wry face from the captain, who moved his body in evident pain.
These interruptions, however, interfered but little with the principal business in hand; and the
captain
had got happily through with this important duty, before the surgeon returned to announce all things ready for his accommodation in the room above stairs.
The surgeon muttered his dissatisfaction, while he followed Mason and the
captain
from the apartment.
Mason, finding, by the breathing of the captain, that his own good night would be unheard, hastened to pay his respects to the ladies - after which he mounted and followed the troop at the top of his horse's speed.
Oh! you are brave gentlemen at a race!""We follow our captain."
To this the
captain
made no reply, but grated his teeth, in a way that showed the fortress of his mouth was not to be assailed without a resolute resistance; and the experienced physician changed the subject by saying,- "It is a pity, John, that you did not catch the rascal, after the danger and trouble you incurred."
The
captain
of dragoons made no reply; and, while placing some bandages on the wounded shoulder, the surgeon continued,- "If I have any wish at all to destroy human life, it is to have the pleasure of seeing that traitor hanged."
The morning found them all restored, in some measure, to their former ease of body, with the exception of the youthful
captain
of dragoons, who had been so deeply regretted by Dunwoodie.
Isabella made no reply; she stretched her hand towards the table which held the nourishment of the captain, and the attentive Frances comprehended her wishes in a moment.
"Very true," replied the captain, kicking a slipper towards the bed.
"At least they would have been, had they made an attack," said the captain, throwing the rest of his clothes within reach of the colonel.
For the first ten minutes all but the
captain
of dragoons found themselves in a situation much to their liking.
A large supply of this cordial had been drawn from his storehouse in the city, and some of it now sparkled in a bottle before the captain, blushing in the rays of the sun, which were passing obliquely through it, like amber.
The peddler walked next the coffin, and by his side moved Katy Haynes, with a most determined aspect of woe, and next to the mourners came Mr. Wharton and the English
captain.
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