We may be children of the sun, too, but I've felt some mighty cold winds sweeping down from the Carolina hills, cold enough to make fur-lined overcoats welcome.
But we'll forget about cold winds and everything else unpleasant, before such a jolly fire as this." They finished an abundant supper, and soon relapsed into silence.
The flames threw out such a generous heat that they were content to rest their backs against the log, and gaze sleepily into the coals.

Beyond the fire, in the shadow, they saw the sentinels walking up and down.
Harry felt for the first time that he was really within the iron bands of military discipline.

He might choose to leave the camp and go into Montgomery, but he would choose and nothing more.

He could not go.
Colonel Leonidas Talbot and Major Hector St.Hilaire were friends, but they were masters also, and he was recognizing sooner than some of the youths around him that it was not merely play and spectacle that awaited them..