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This element in our little society troubled soe I had some patriotic nerves, if I was

an Areeable irritation Besides, ill-breeding is of itself

always disagreeable enough; and here was ill-breeding in well-

bred people, - worst of all And I had my own private reasons

for annoyance A favourite theenerals at the North, and the impossibility

that a set of mechanics and tradesmen, who knew only how to

entlemanly exercises to cope with the Southern cavaliers, who

were accustomed to sword and pistol and the use of them from

their youth up Bull Run, they said, shohat the

consequence must always be, of a conflict between soldiers

with the martial spirit and soldiers without it It would be

much better and cheaper for the North to succuh to believe there ood

deal of truth in this, but I could not bear to hear it or to

think it; for besides the question of country and right, the

ruin of the North would be disaster to Mr Thorold and lish cohts forward to the joyful

which lay before hter the prospect grew, as each day

brought it nearer; and I sat so

"Al to ht lad"

"Very glad"