Anyhow, I expect we can get you passed down so as to be among friends.

So you fought under Jackson and Stuart, did you?
Ah, they have done well in Virginia! I only wish we had such men here.

What made you take those two darkies along with you?
I should have thought you would have got along better by yourself." "We couldn't very well leave them," Vincent said; "the boy has been with me all through the wars, and is as true as steel.

Old Chloe was Lucy's nurse, and would have broken her heart had she been left behind." "They are faithful creatures when they are well treated.

Mighty few of them have run away all this time from their masters, though in the parts the Yankees hold there is nothing to prevent their bolting if they have a mind to it.