And you, Ralph ?" "I say, mother, that I will not budge from this place unless I am ordered to go, and if I do go, I will come back for Suzanne.

I love you all, and with you I wish to live and nowhere else." "Nay, Ralph," I answered sighing, "if once you go you will never come back, for out yonder you will find a new home, new interests, and, perchance, new loves.

Well, though nobody has thought of me in this matter, I have a voice in it, and I will speak for myself.

That lad yonder has been a son to me for many years, and I who have none love him as such.

He is a man as we reckon in this country, and he does not wish to leave us any more than we wish him to go.