The Boy Soldier; Or, Garibaldi's Young Captain — page 141: what you’re looking at

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THE BOY SOLDIER; OR, GARIBALDI'’S YOUNG CAPTAIN. 135 “At last he nose up, as calm and old as marble, | “* lam sorry, Frank, fortune has this thrown us together at such a 2 isoment, You see who I am, at adnate aac altace me—how I am situ- ou Bee, a a and a table, This it * What is te couse of all this Tell me, I beg you—in memory of times, of our friendship catego Bromley. I beseech you explain this mystery/ I asked, pasei ; revo all memories, cause this unaccountable change in one so talented, so handsome, and so young. “* Ask me for no explanation, not yet, time will do all that; and, as if some exclaimed, weeks will reveal everything, and I shall be myself again ; but I never dreamed of ever meeting you * A friend of ours at fall?” said several, in a breath, “Why, who could it be!” “ Who was it, Captain Frank !” Rian Sogn, ea aes pl 9 an “Do I know ” ccked Fatty, with rolling 7 Yes, all of you know him, and love him too ; Sida Sts at ee ee it.” __ * After much persuasion I got our poor friend d hateonr a Seis for pr as was, he had in lin upon rang the bell, for I was afraid to leave him alone onl ae ee ith aaichs renigtadat aaaete aciectitdic in e with 2 rich young oa poverty aud blasted charatter, for both of which he packed it up and intended i England, sss presen! toon you well knew, in order to prove to her that, I micht be poor, I was not a nanan nce eign Nive A anyone or ! Tidy den post oe “*hnd 80 you have, Ae ae ee att the other other niget, "a thes the Plaza, where you Saded oka, rdeeal Yon te the sank of Dyn dise appointed you to command several troops of twats he exclaimed, in astonishment, with two tears of ae ‘What! can it onsible * At that ssomedt the old housekeeper returned Te ea I had sent her with to FB I could not divine the ce of his - ol w d two_or three words to ti and then org Pet net * § Gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to an old friend and a young igen Me of mine, your newly superior officer, Major —— beath, 23 what?” spouted all the b boy soldiers, in a in his narrative, Frank paused in “ Major who?” said Fatty and Buttons, jumping up in excitement. eee said Frank, laughing. “ Treth is stranger than fiction, my boys. Valour in his SS Lg Whzt! our old friend Caspar promoted from the ranks to b2 a major of dragoons 1” said all. * Just £0.” BNO.” “Three cheers,” “ Wine times nine, and a bumper to old Caspar's success and good “Good luck to him,” roared Fatty; “he never | thrashed me as old Shanks did.” _ Glasses were filled to the brim, and three cheers iven with great heartiness, ge gt mad vate eg Cogan “ for ig tippy an Be wseg health with such spirit, but, as I cannot of responding to nay = raped alee you now our tent, It was Caspar himself ? ee ae to an who e whole re ge 2 ote, E their lond CHAPTER XLVIIL THE MELTING BSETWEES AGNES AND SELLY LANCASTER—LOVE, PHIDE, AND Cag et Livrie did Frank Ford imagine that the young oon ho wet epee the stent, 66 Be the sick chamber of faix Agnese wat none Oe oe asta But sue was the fact. Her father, a rich banker, had a great stake in the Italian war, He, among others, had loaned to King Victor Exmanue) a very large sum with which to prosecute the and, like any other Oe BUNCE SC CE, SEL ETT, desizons of seeing how that money was ded, whether pa rie otherwise, and w geo there mer his ever being remunerated ‘ike am Tien as felt that any sensi eure the Italian cause could sot well fail of suecess, if carried out according to the plans of tuat bold old But this, the old ig banker bad another motive for visiting Ital vot ba die would do much to restore to full health and strength To tsaved in Thal was the dearest wish of Ellen's She had not beard from her lover Frank for 2 pottigete bad lorgoton ber, a8 ad fallen into Ccomicbooks CO