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"Good lected

id salute

"April eleventh, eighteen-sixty-one!" he said with clean-cut

precision "Good arden blow?

Blow--blointry winds! Ahem! How have the roses

wintered--the rose of yesterday?"

"Oh, I don't know, sir I am afraid my sister's roses have not

wintered very well I'm really a little worried about the in Heaven, on Earth, or in Hell,"

said the Captain briskly "God's will is doing night and day, Mrs

Paige Has your brother-in-law gone to business?"

"Oh, yes He and Stephen went at eight this "

"Is your sister-in-laell God bless her!" shouted the Captain

"Uncle, you ently

"I'lect nothing, htest advantage to my country in the hour when every

respiration, every pulse beat, every waking thought shall belong to

the Govern"

He bowed stiffly froht about, and , his hair on end