It leaves small leisure for letters except on Sundays; and if a fellow means to be well placed, even then he is wise to do some work.

The outside world seems far away, and we read and can read few papers.
"I am of Uncle Jim's politics, but although there are many pretty sensitive cadets from the South, some of them my friends, there is so pleasant a camaraderie among us that there are few quarrels, and certainly none of the bitterness of the two sections.
"I think I may have told you that we have no furlough until we have been here two years, but I hope some time for a visit from Uncle Jim and you, or at least from him and Leila.

How she would enjoy it! The wonderful beauty of the great river in the embrace of these wooded mountains, the charm of the heroic lives it has nourished and the romance of its early history are delightful--" "Enjoy it," murmured Leila, "oh, would I not indeed!" Then she read on: "Tell Leila to write me all about the horses and the town, and if Josiah has been heard of.

Tom McGregor writes me that after he is graduated next year, he means to try for a place in the army and get a year or two of army life before he settles down to help his father.

So it takes only two years to learn how to keep people alive and four to learn how to kill them." "I wonder who John means to kill." She sat in thought a while, and rising to undress said, "He must be greatly changed, my dear boy, Jack.