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Does the reader reo, when the thunder of Fort Su up to the Northern hills and across the Western prairies, stopping for a ain with a hty power as from Maine to Californiaour honored flag in the dust? Nowhere, perhaps, was the excite as in New York, when the Seventh Regiton, its members, who so often had trodden the streets with a proud step, never faltering or holding back, but with a nerving of the will and a putting aside of self, prepared to do their duty Conspicuous a at hisre how she would feel, and thinking the path to danger would be so much easier if he knew her love was his, that her prayers, her wishes would go with hiain to the sunshine of her presence

And before he went Markput it off so long True she had been sick and confined to her roo while after Aunt Betsy's o out, Lent had put a stop to herin festive scenes, so that he had seen but little of her, and had never met her alone But he would write that very day She knew, of course, that he was going, bidding hiallantonly because they o; and she would answer "yes" to the question he would ask her Mark felt sure of that; but still the letter he wrote was eloquent with his pleadings for her love, while he confessed his own, and asked that she would be his wife--would give hiht to carry her in his heart--to think of her as his affianced bride--to know she waited for his return, and would crown it at last with the full fruition of her priceless love

"I ht," he added, in conclusion "Can I hope to see you there, taking your presence as a token that I may speak and tell you in words what I have so poorly written?"