Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable
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with the girls; and lastly, that with perfect evenness and a boyish
modesty he treated them all alike. Anna laughed with the rest, but remembered three separate balls to which, though counted on, he had not come, she uninformed that military exigencies had at the last moment curtly waved him off, and he unaware that these exigencies had been created by Irby under inspiration from the daintiest and least self-assertive tactician in or about New Orleans. XVI CONSTANCE TRIES TO HELP One day, in Canal Street, Kincaid met "Smellemout and Ketchem." It was pleasant to talk with men of such tranquil speech. He proposed a glass of wine, but just then they were "strictly temperance." They alluded familiarly to his and Greenleaf's midnight adventure. The two bull-drivers, they said, were still unapprehended. Dropping to trifles they mentioned a knife, a rather glittering gewgaw, which, as evidence, ought-- "Oh, that one!" said Hilary. "Yes, I have it, mud, glass jewels and all. No," he laughed, "I can keep it quite as safely as you can." |
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