I could not bear it.

I--" "Stay, Adah, Lily, don't say you should hate me;" and the doctor's voice was so full of anguish that Adah involuntarily advanced toward him, standing quite near, while he begged of her to say if the past could not be forgotten.

His family were ready, were anxious to receive her.

Sweet Anna Millbrook already loved her as a sister, while he, her husband, words could not tell his love for her.

He would do whatever she required; go back to the Federal army if she said so; seek for the pardon he was sure to gain; fight for his country like a hero, periling life and limb, if she would only give him the shadow of a hope.
"I must have time to think.