You know Woodhouse made a record at Lookout Mountain; he was killed the third day." "Gifford used to say," said Helen, "that he wished he had been born in time to go into the army." "There's a good deal of fight in the boy," said the rector, chuckling.
"His aunts were always begging him not to get into rows with the village boys.

I even had to caution him myself.

'Never fight, sir,' I'd say; 'but if you do fight, whip 'em!' Yes, it's a pity he couldn't have been in the army." "Well," said Lois, impatiently, "Giff would have fought, I know, but he's so contradictory! I've heard him say the Southerners couldn't help fighting for secession; it was a principle to them, and there was no moral wrong about it, he said." "Oh, nonsense!" cried the rector; "these young men, who haven't borne the burden and heat of the day, pretend to instruct us, do they?
No moral wrong?
I thought Gifford had some sense! They were condemned by God and man." "But, uncle Archie," Helen said, slowly, "if they thought they were right, you can't say there was a moral wrong ?" "Oh, come, come," said Dr.Howe, with an indignant splutter, "you don't understand these things my dear,--you're young yet, Helen.

They were wrong through and through; so don't be absurd." Then turning half apologetically to John Ward, he added, "You'll have to keep this child's ideas in order; I'm sure she never heard such sentiments from me.

Mr.
Ward will think you haven't been well brought up, Helen.