The Colonel's Wife — page 60: what you’re looking at

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service in years gone by, but was decrepit from age now. --Not a word was spoken until they packed this, when John, looking back said: ‘It makes me sad to see the old house vo, but there are other relics in the South that must take their departure too—the relic of barbarism called slavery, for instance, the corner-stone of the Con-— federacy, and which has done so much to wean- from her cause the sympathy of the whole enlightened world. Well, some day a new house will arise there, much finer than the old, and when this cruel war is over I predict that over the ruins of slavery there ~ will arise a new South beside which the old regime — will not bear any .comparison.”’ | She made no reply, but, as he stole aside glance at her face, while she stood watching the greedy flames completing their work, he could see that she - was not displeased. Then they walked on. A strange couple—man and wife, made so bya | minister of the gospel and the law of the land, yet almost strangers. Several times he allowed her to precede him, and on these occasions noted with considerable interest her proud carriage, for Mollie held her head hkea | queen. | ‘““Come,’’? John was saying to himself after the. manner of a spoiled bachelor, ‘‘perhaps that marriage of convenience may not turn out such a bad thing for me after all. She is handsome, I must confess. I like her spirit, too, though when she says she hates me I remember that a woman often says something of that sort to cover up another feeling of growing interest. Well, since fate chooses to buffet me about after the manner of a foot-ball, I must submit to the inevitable. One thing sure—I won't give up my | wife tamely now.”? FATE WEAVES THE FABRIC. Bb ae : i eis Me comic 00: ‘S:COM * > ’ Bed . ad p4 . = OF PL ad * . af LV SOR eee | = pe. phat Ste EF Oo y"% ; j ys == ‘ . > aoe! pa * ‘ - + = “ *) +E Sto, ea we eee tag, z 2, tiem \ - ‘ '