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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 [1866], Surry of Eagles Nest, or, The memoirs of a staff officer serving in Virginia. Edited from the mss. of Colonel Surry. (Bunce and Huntington, New York) [word count] [eaf519T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Mordaunt had gone to give an order to his second in command, He looked thin and pale, but his eye was as laughing, his smile “How are you, Major?” was his easy greeting. “Delighted to “Your wound kept you away?” “Yes—at that glorious Elm Cottage! Did you ever know “They are charming.” “I believe you.” “Did you like your young nurse? I believe she took especial Harry Saltonn's face colored suddenly—it was a veritable “Oh, yes,” he stammered, “we became very good friends. What did that sudden blush mean? Had Harry Saltoun
“You ought to have found out our house,” he continued, “I can testify as much from personal experience,” was my reply, At sight of it he exhibited the most unmistakable pleasure. “Thank you, Major!” he exclaimed; “you have done me a “Take care, or some Yankee will get it.” “Never—I will die first. I never have been captured yet—for, “That is no doubt the reason you left Elm Cottage?” “Precisely! No sooner did I hear that McClellan was ad The boy's laughter was like a cordial, and almost made the “And you left all well?—your fair nurse and everybody?” “Perfectly.” And again, at the utterance of that word “nurse,” Harry Saltoun “Well, Major,” he said, “good-by, now! Thank you again With these words the gay youth saluted with the easy grace
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 [1866], Surry of Eagles Nest, or, The memoirs of a staff officer serving in Virginia. Edited from the mss. of Colonel Surry. (Bunce and Huntington, New York) [word count] [eaf519T]. |