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The Guns of Bull Run

CHAPTER VIII
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Well, maybe it will all blow over.

The worries of today are often the jokes of tomorrow." Major Warren shook his head.
"It may blow over," he said, "but it will be a mighty wind; it will blow a long time, and many things for which you and I care, George, will be blown away by it.

When that great and terrible wind stops blowing, our country will be changed forever." "Don't be so downcast, John, you are not dead yet," said Colonel Kenton, clapping his friend on the shoulder.

"You've often seen big clouds go by without either wind or rain." "How about that attack upon your house and you and your friends?
The clouds had something in them then." "Merely mountain outlaws taking advantage of unsettled conditions." Harry had listened closely and he knew that his father was only giving voice to his hopes, not to his beliefs.

But as they ceased to talk of the great question, his attention wandered to the country through which they were passing.


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