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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 34 (search)
e steel, two-edged blade embossed with military emblems, and very sharp, and then at this button-hole, and wonder What for? During the war, and especially towards the end, this question had come to haunt me. I wondered if it could do anything, and I lived to prove it—almost! For several days I wore my dagger, and then losing interest in the tragic accoutrement, as the danger seemed delayed, I laid it on the dressing-table with watch, jewelry, etc. Thus one may sleep on the very crest of Vesuvius. A few days after, about three o'clock in the afternoon, I was sitting quietly in my room reading; there came a tap at the door, and a girlish face appeared. The Yankees are coming, Miss C., she said. Was ever aplomb carried further? At last! 'Twas my rejoinder, imitating her in a fair degree. Going to the window, I looked out and saw a half-dozen horses fastened to the palings. As usual, these unwelcomed visitors had made themselves at home, and entered by the back gate.