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"There's enough of it to see, ain't there?""Oh!" exclaimed George, grasping the idea; "but we can't drink the river, you know!""No; but you can drink SOME of it," replied the old fellow.
"No," I replied, beginning to grow thoughtful too, "I don't.
"Thirty-two," replied Harris, sleepily.
"Ah! you may well say that, sir," replied the man; and then, after a pull at his beer, he added, "Maybe you wasn't here, sir, when that fish was caught?""No," we told him.
"Oh! was it you who caught it, then?" said I."Yes, sir," replied the genial old fellow.
"That's what I said", replied the cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with the broom, sending it sideways across the floor.
"Why, one can hardly say it is his dwelling," replied the other, drawing a hurried breath, like one eager to answer; "he is never in it, or so seldom, that I hardly remember his face, when he does think it worth his while to show it to his poor old father and me.
The traveler had also seated himself, and he sat unconsciously gazing on the fire, while Mr. Wharton spoke; turning his eyes slowly on his host with a look of close observation, he replied, while a faint tinge gathered on his features,-"Mr.
"I think we have never met before, sir," replied Harper with a slight smile on his features, as he observed the move ments of the other; but appearing satisfied with his scrutiny, he turned to Sarah Wharton, who sat next him, and carelessly remarked,-"You doubtless find your present abode solitary, after being accustomed to the gayeties of the city."
"I thank you," replied the young man, "but I must go and seek your brother, who placed me there in ambuscade, as he called it, with a promise of returning an hour ago."
For an instant Harper paused in silent admiration of the lovely pleader, and then, folding her hands on his breast, he replied solemnly, "I cannot, and I will not."
"Let me tell you," replied the captain, gravely, "a lieutenant colonelcy in the Guards is a very pretty thing."
"Such appearances, my children," replied the desponding parent, "are but too often deceitful; when men like Major Andre lend themselves to the purposes of fraud, it is idle to reason from qualities, much less externals."
"I do not doubt his worth," replied the maid, mildly, "nor his being deserving of a more happy fate; but I cannot doubt the propriety of Washington's conduct.
"If it should not prove so good as the first," replied the peddler, fixing a last and lingering look in the direction of Harper's route, "it is owing to the scarcity of the article."
"At times only, I believe, sir," replied Mr. Wharton, cautiously.
"He told me of arresting a captain of the 60th in disguise, but without mentioning where or whom," replied the major in a similar tone; and dropping his head between his hands, he endeavored to conceal his feelings from his companion.
"The disguise was used by me, Major Dunwoodie," replied the English officer, gravely, "to enable me to visit my friends, without incurring the danger of becoming a prisoner of war.""But you did not wear it, until you saw the troop of Lawton approaching?"
"For my sake," replied Frances, in a voice barely audible, and dropping on his bosom.
"I have been told you once saw him for a moment, at the town residence of my sisters," replied Wharton, with a lurking smile.
You know the force of the rebels; are there more of them in ambush?""Yes," replied the youth, chafing still under the other's sneers, "in the skirt of this wood on our right are a small party of foot; their horse are all before you."
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.
"It must be, madam; it cannot well be otherwise," replied Dunwoodie, with a hesitation that but ill agreed with his former declarations.
The distance in the manner of the English officer vanished, and taking the offered hand of the other, he replied with warmth, "Your generous confidence, Peyton, will not be abused, even though the gibbet on which your Washington hung Andre be ready for my own execution."
"There, sir; that will answer your purpose, and I am certain it is all that is required of me.""What do you take to be my purpose, then, sir?""To report yourself wounded in your dispatches," replied the doctor, with great steadiness; "and you may say that an old woman dressed your hurts - for if one did not, one easily might!""Very extraordinary language," muttered the Englishman.
"She would do honor to the corps," replied the lieutenant, with some warmth.
"Ah! don't mention it, my good Tom; the thought makes my head ache," replied the other, shrugging up his shoulders.
"Something so, I do believe," replied the captain, catching his breath, and speaking with difficulty.
"Yes, but I must begin with the very beginning of the book," replied the other, turning the leaves carefully back, until, moving two at once, she lighted upon a page covered with writing.
"No, ma'am," replied the disturbed damsel, with great bitterness, "he is not yet gone, but he may go as soon as he pleases now, for the worst is done.
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