Evening
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how awfully sublime! - may such a quiet speedily await the struggle in which my country is engaged, and such a glorious
evening
follow the day of her adversity!"
"Fine evening," said the peddler, saluting the party, without raising his eyes; "quite warm and agreeable for the season."
As Birch concluded, however, Harper turned to his host, and mentioned that his business would not admit of unnecessary delay; he would, therefore, avail himself of the fine
evening
to ride a few miles on his journey.
The father and sisters of the captain were too much rejoiced in retaining the young man to express, or even entertain, the apprehensions his situation might reasonably excite; but on retiring to their
evening
repast, a cooler reflection induced the captain to think of changing his mind.
"But he is gone - how - when - and whither?""He departed as he arrived," said Mr. Wharton, gathering renewed confidence from the manner of the trooper; "on horseback, last evening, and he took the northern road."
The gathering mists of the
evening
had begun to darken the valley, as the detachment of Lawton made its reappearance, at its southern extremity.
Birch prudently kept his position on the rock, where he had been seen by the passing glance of Henry Wharton, until
evening
had begun to shroud the surrounding objects in darkness.
The
evening
sun would frequently leave him at one extremity of the county, and the morning find him at the other.
Many a sentinel, placed in the gorges of the mountains, spoke of a strange figure that had been seen gliding by them in the mists of the
evening.
CHAPTER XIIThis fairy form contains a soul as mighty, As that which lives within a giant's frame; These slender limbs, that tremble like the aspen At summer
evening'
s sigh, uphold a spirit, Which, roused, can tower to the height of heaven, And light those shining windows of the face With much of heaven's own radiance.
The peddler looked from the window, and saw with dismay that the
evening
was fast advancing, and knew well that he endangered his life by remaining in the dwelling after dark; yet he could not tolerate the idea of being defrauded in this manner, in a bargain that had already been fairly made; he hesitated.
How relish you the idea of supping with Captain Lawton, this evening, Mr. Birch?"
Towards
evening
the cold blasts poured down from the mountains, and flurries of snow plainly indicated that the month of November had arrived; a season whose temperature varies from the heats of summer to the cold of winter.
He had dispatched an officer, the preceding evening, to Colonel Singleton, who was in command of the advance posts, reporting the capture of the British captain, and, after giving his own opinion of his innocence, requesting orders as to the manner in which he was to dispose of his prisoner.
"That was a charming song, Archibald, that you commenced last evening, when we were interrupted by the party that brought in the peddler," he said.
Sitgreaves brought an invitation from the mistress of the mansion to Captain Lawton, desiring that the cottage might be honored with his presence at an early hour on that
evening.
"Caesar," she commenced, with a smile, "you are now to learn that your young mistress, Miss Sarah, is to be united to Colonel Wellmere this evening."
He leaned forward in his stirrups, and placing the point of his sword under the silken garment, by throwing aside the covering, discovered part of the form of the reverend gentleman who had fled from the Locusts, the
evening
before, in his robes of office.
Harkee, I'll thank you not to make such a noise when you hold forth, as to drown our bugles, or you may get a poor fellow a short horn at his grog, for not turning out to the
evening
parade.
"What are you at there, scoundrels?" cried Lieutenant Mason, as he came in sight from a walk he had taken to sneer at the
evening
parade of the regiment of militia.
It was still early, but the darkness and the dreary nature of a November
evening
would, at any other moment, or with less inducement to exertion, have driven her back in terror to the circle she had left.
Frances felt but little apprehension from the orderly and quiet troops who were taking their
evening'
s repast on the side of the highway, opposite to the field through which she was flying.
But the delusion vanished, as the horizon again cleared, and the star of
evening
shone forth from a cloud, after struggling hard, as if for existence.
In no one were these virtuous hopes more vivid than in the bosom of a young officer who stood on the table rock, contemplating the great cataract, on the
evening
of the 25th of July of that bloody year.
"Say, Tom--they say a stray dog come howling around Johnny Miller's house, 'bout midnight, as much as two weeks ago; and a whippoorwill come in and lit on the banisters and sung, the very same evening; and there ain't anybody dead there yet."
No, they practised cautiously, after supper, with right fair success, and so they spent a jubilant
evening.
At eight in the
evening
the schoolhouse was brilliantly lighted, and adorned with wreaths and festoons of foliage and flowers.
To his left, back of the rows of citizens, was a spacious temporary platform upon which were seated the scholars who were to take part in the exercises of the evening; rows of small boys, washed and dressed to an intolerable state of discomfort; rows of gawky big boys; snowbanks of girls and young ladies clad in lawn and muslin and conspicuously conscious of their bare arms, their grandmothers' ancient trinkets, their bits of pink and blue ribbon and the flowers in their hair.
The prime feature of the
evening
was in order, now--original "compositions" by the young ladies.
This composition was considered to be the very finest effort of the
evening.
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