Because of Louisburg--why, this--Ellisville! This is the result of that day! And you refer to it with eagerness." Poor Franklin groaned at this, but thought of no right words to say until ten hours afterward, which is mostly the human way.

"I know--I could have known," he blundered--"I should not be so rude as to suppose that--ah, it was only _you_ that I remembered! The war is past and gone, The world, as you say, is very small.

It was only that I was glad--" "Ah, sir," said Mary Ellen, and her voice now held a plaintiveness which was the stronger from the droop of the tenderly curving lips--"ah, sir, but you must remember! To lose your relatives, even in a war for right and principle--and the South was right!" (this with a flash of the eye late pensive)--"that is hard enough.

But for me it was not one thing or another; it was the sum of a thousand misfortunes.
I wonder that I am alive.

It seems to me as though I had been in a dream for a long, long time.