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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 17: from Court to camp. (search)
ey H. grinned all the way across his fresh, fair face, as he extended a foot protruding from what had been a boot. D-1 take your dress! Peel those onions, Charley! cried a baldheaded man from the fire--Don't your heart rise at the scent of this olla, my boy? Don't it bring back our dinners at the Spanish legation? Stay and dine with us — if Charley ever has those onions done-and you'll feast like a lord-mayor! By the way, last letters from home tell me that Miss Belle's engaged to John Smith. You remember her that night at Mrs. R.'s fancy ball? Wouldn't mind having a bottle of Mrs. R.'s sherry now to tone up these onions, Charley said ruefully. It would go well With that stew, taken out of a tin cup-eh, cookey? We had lots better at the club, the cook said, thoughtfully stirring the mess on the fire-It was laid in before you were born, Charley. Those were days, boys-but we'll drink many a bottle of it yet under the stars and bars! That we will, old man! and I'll c