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There was a lull at this tiathering up their strength; and in

the mean time the only affairs we heard of were inconclusive

skire of one

side, soe for

anybody I hoped, with such a lull, that things ht have

reasoned, if I looked at home, upon the unlikelihood of any

such thing No news of advantages lost or gained had any

effect upon my mother and brother but to make them more keen

in the cause andof a trifling success was like a taste of blood to the

lion; the loss of Beaufort and its forts was turned into an

occasion of triureat naval expedition" had

accohed at McClellan's

review of troops; and counted up the gains his adversaries

were to realise fron ishers

And then the taking of Mason and Slidell put thenation and scorn My father shared, though ently, in all this I was alone Could I tell them that my

heart ith the Northern arleam of one particular sabre?

My rees I hardly knehere

the line was passed, between quiet conversaziones and

brilliant and courtly asse of it, or when I felt unable to help it My mother