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"Pray, Colonel Wellmere," said Frances, recovering her good humor, and raising her joyous eyes once more to the face of the gentleman, "was the Lord Percy of Lexington a kinsman of him who fought at Chevy Chase?""Why, Miss Fanny, you are becoming a rebel," said the colonel, endeavoring to laugh away the anger he felt; "what you are pleased to insinuate was a chase at Lexington, was nothing more than a judicious retreat - a-kind of - ""Running fight," interrupted the good-humored girl, laying a great emphasis on the first word.
"Positively, young lady" - Colonel Wellmere was interrupted by a laugh from a person who had hitherto been unnoticed.
Frances had, indeed, thought there was something like a smile passing over the features of the traveler, when, on entering the room, he first confronted her brother; but it was confined to the eyes, seeming to want power to affect the muscles of the face, and was soon lost in the settled and benevolent expression which reigned in his countenance, with a sway but seldom interrupted.
"No more nigger than be yourself, Mister Birch," interrupted Caesar tartly, dropping at the same time the covering of the goods in high displeasure.
His eyes, which stood at a most formidable distance from each other, were small, and characterized by an expression of good feeling, occasionally interrupted by the petulance of an indulged servant; they, however, now danced with inward delight.
"In Frances I see the picture of Major Dunwoodie, and in Sarah - ""Colonel Wellmere," interrupted the younger sister, laughing, and blushing crimson.
The musings of the party were now interrupted by the sudden appearance of the peddler.
"Peyton Dunwoodie!" said Frances, solemnly, and with a face of ashy paleness, "you have told me - you have sworn, that you love me--""I do," interrupted the soldier, with fervor; but motioning for silence she continued, in a voice that trembled with her fears,-"Do you think I can throw myself into the arms of a man whose hands are stained with the blood of my only brother!""Frances, you wring my very heart!"
"Oh! no," interrupted Frances, eagerly, forgetting all the circumstances in her anxiety for her brother.
But if he does - ""We will not leave him a dozen sound skins in his battalion," interrupted the other, springing into his saddle.
Further conversation was interrupted by the appearance of the dragoons, slowly marching towards their former halting place, and new applications from the slightly wounded soldiers, who now came riding in, making hasty demands on the skill of the doctor.
At length Singleton gave a slight groan, and the surgeon rose with alacrity, and said aloud,-"Ah! there is some pleasure in following a bullet; it may be said to meander through the human body, injuring nothing vital; but as for Captain Lawton's men - ""Speak," interrupted Dunwoodie; "is there hope? - can you find the ball?""It's no difficult matter to find that which one has in his hand, Major Dunwoodie," replied the surgeon, coolly, preparing his dressings.
"Ah! poor George, it is a narrow chance; but" - he was interrupted by a messenger requiring the presence of the commanding officer in the field.
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.
You have that within you, Harvey, that will guide you aright; persevere as you have begun, for the duties of life are never to be neglected and" - a noise in the adjoining room interrupted the dying man, and the impatient peddler hastened to learn the cause, followed by Katy and the black.
She was interrupted by the physician, who, approaching, inquired, with much interest, the nature of the disorder.
"Yes," interrupted the spinster hastily, and with an air of reverence that was instantly succeeded by an expression that denoted more of worldly care; "but then I have left my wages for three years past in the hands of Harvey, and how am I to get them?
"Let me set you right in that particular," interrupted the surgeon.
In charity to her ignorance, the surgeon would have entered into an elaborate explanation of his meaning, had he not been interrupted by the mirth of Lawton.
"True, true," interrupted Frances, blushing to the eyes; "but he leaves his room, and thinks his wound lightly purchased by the pleasure of being with his friends.
"You now have the fruits of rebellion brought home to you; a brother wounded and a prisoner, and perhaps a victim; your father distressed, his privacy interrupted, and not improbably his estates torn from him, on account of his loyalty to his king."
"It is a misfortune that our mess has no such wine as this," interrupted the trooper.
His meditations were, however, soon interrupted by the appearance of the washerwoman, who came staggering through the door that communicated with the kitchen, muttering execrations against the servants of the officers, who, by their waggery, had disturbed her slumbers before the fire.
The noise of her huge frame falling on the bed was succeeded by a silence that was soon interrupted by the renewed respiration of the peddler, and within a few minutes Harvey continued to breathe aloud, as if no interruption had occurred.
Take awful warning from the visit therefore - "Here the dialogue was interrupted by a peremptory summons to the sutler to prepare the morning's repast, and they were obliged to separate; the woman secretly hoping that the interest the sergeant manifested was more earthly than he imagined; and the man, bent on saving a soul from the fangs of the dark spirit that was prowling through their camp in quest of victims.
"Swear not, Major Dunwoodie," interrupted Frances, her fine countenance lighting with the luster of womanly pride.
"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.
Some little time was lost in clearing his throat, and getting the proper pitch of his voice; but no sooner were these two points achieved, than Lawton had the secret delight of hearing his friend commence-"'Hast thou ever'"-"Hush!" interrupted the trooper.
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.
But the arrival of the surgeon, who had been to pay his daily visit to the Locusts, interrupted his meditations.
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