Cottage
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To this officer Lawton made his report, and, side by side, they rode into the field opposite to the
cottage.
The officer gave a few hasty orders to his second in command, walked rapidly into the lawn, and approached the
cottage.
Once only, as he wheeled his horse to ride over the ground in front, did Dunwoodie trust himself with a look at the cottage, and his heart beat with unusual rapidity as he saw a female figure standing, with clasped hands, at a window of the room in which he had met Frances.
It cannot be supposed that all these preparations were made unheeded by the inmates of the cottage; on the contrary, every feeling which can agitate the human breast, in witnessing such a scene, was actively alive.
He particularly disliked the ambush of the detachment under Lawton, who could be distinctly seen from the windows of the cottage, cooling his impatience, by pacing on foot the ground in front of his men.
In a field on the left of the cottage, and at a short distance in the rear of the troops, was a small group, whose occupation seemed to differ from that of all around them.
On reaching the open space near the
cottage
of Harvey Birch, the enemy halted and drew up his men in line, evi dently making preparations for a charge.
Such a scene could not be expected to be acted so near them, and the inmates of the
cottage
take no interest in the result.
At this moment two Cowboys, who had been cut off from a retreat to their own party, rode furiously through the gate, with an intention of escaping to the open wood in the rear of the
cottage.
Three hundred of his comrades were within a mile of the cottage; unridden horses were running at large in every direction, and Henry Wharton seized the unconscious sentinel by his legs, and threw him headlong into the lawn.
"Prepare to mount-mount!" cried Dunwoodie; the last word being repeated by Lawton in a tone that rang in the ears of Caesar, who stood at the open window of the
cottage.
The guides took charge of Wharton, and, with a heavy heart, the young man retraced his steps to his father's
cottage.
The last sounds of the combat died on the ears of the anxious listeners in the cottage, and were succeeded by the stillness of suspense.
This could only be procured at the cottage, and thither they both proceeded.
Sitgreaves he determined to leave in the
cottage
of Mr. Wharton, in attendance on Captain Singleton.
Dunwoodie had lingered in front of the cottage, after he paid his parting compliments, with an unwillingness to return, that he thought proceeded from his solicitude for his wounded friends.
Frances, impelled by a restless inquietude, now timidly ventured on the piazza of the
cottage.
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.
The family at the Locusts had slept, or watched, through all the disturbances at the
cottage
of Birch, in perfect ignorance of their occurrence.
At length, a single horse chaise was seen making its way carefully among the stones which lay scattered over the country road that wound through the valley, and approached the
cottage.
Frances withdrew to seek her aunt, musing deeply on the character and extreme sensibility of the new acquaintance chance had brought to the
cottage.
The savor of preparation which had been noticed by Captain Lawton began to increase within the walls of the cottage; certain sweet-smelling odors, that arose from the subterranean territories of Caesar, gave to the trooper the most pleasing assurances that his olfactory nerves, which on such occasions were as acute as his eyes on others, had faithfully performed their duty; and for the benefit of enjoying the passing sweets as they arose, the dragoon so placed himself at a window of the building, that not a vapor charged with the spices of the East could exhale on its passage to the clouds, without first giving its incense to his nose.
Caesar emerged from the cellar kitchen of the cottage, and with a face of settled solemnity, added himself to the number of the followers of the funeral, though with a humble mien and at a most respectful distance from the horsemen.
In obedience to the commands of his superior, an officer, with a small party, was sent to the
cottage
to conduct Henry Wharton to the place directed; and the gentleman who was intrusted with the execution of the order was charged with a letter from Dunwoodie to his friend, containing the most cheering assurances of his safety, as well as the strongest pledges of his own unceasing exertions in his favor.
"Miss Wharton, would you have me a coxcomb - make me contemptible in my own eyes, by boasting with the hope of raising myself in your estimation?""Flatter not yourself that the task is so easy, sir," returned Frances, moving towards the
cottage.
Before parting, Dunwoodie repeated his caution to keep a watchful eye on the inmates of the cottage; and especially enjoined him, if any movements of a particularly suspicious nature were seen in the neighborhood, to break up from his present quarters, and to move down with his party, and take possession of the domains of Mr. Wharton.
So saying, he turned his horse's head towards the cottage, and recommenced his ride.
Now, had it been one of the more important members, such as the leg, or arm, how much greater must the pleasure have been!""Or the neck," said the trooper; but their desultory discourse was interrupted by their arrival at the
cottage
of Mr. Wharton.
His sister, with a cheek that was, if possible, paler than on her arrival, watched around his couch with tender care; and the ladies of the
cottage
had not, in the midst of their sorrows and varied emotions, forgotten to discharge the duties of hospitality.
Several days now passed without any interruption of the usual avocations of the inhabitants of the cottage, or the party at the Four Corners.
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