When they had exchanged names, Gordon said: "Stretch out a bit on this old sofa.

You look tired.

You've been riding a long distance.

How many miles have you come ?" "I don't know," replied Harry, as he lay luxuriously on the sofa, "but we started at one o'clock this morning and it is now three o'clock in the afternoon." "Fourteen hours.

It's like what we've been hearing of Stonewall Jackson.
I took a peep at him from the window as you rode up." "I suppose you didn't see much but dust." "They certainly tell extraordinary things of General Jackson.