Nobody was stirring in the streets, except some Mississippi soldiers who had been placed there to oppose the passage, and who were fortifying themselves in the houses and cellars along the river front.
"It's no good looking any more," Harry said to Dalton.

"There's nothing to do now but wait.

That's what General Jackson is doing.

I saw him in his tent to-day, reading a book on theology that Dr.Graham has just sent him." "You're right, Harry.

If the general can rest, so can we.