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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 49 CHAPTER III. SATISFACTION. THE fracas in the Senate Chamber was already the universal talk in every city? from the commercial metropolis of the North to the log hamlet of the far West?whither the telegraph had flashed the news; and in the night train from Washington the hero of the story and his companions?his second and a young surgeon of rapidly rising repute?were the objects of an attention especially unpleasant to Clarence. The better class of Southerners manifested their sympathy by unobtrusive, incidental courtesies, guessing his errand and aware that publicity might defeat it. One or two noisy patriots were less discreet; and to the second or third loud congratulation Derval replied, coldly and distinctly, if not sharply: ' You mistake the matter altogether, Colonel Williams. While my State remains in the Union, I am bound to respect her confederates; VOL. II. E and in no case could I horsewhip Massachusetts or involve the honour of South Carolina in a personal brawl. I punished a personal insult to my father, and the affair concerns myself alone. I do hone no Southerner will be foolish enough to assist the Black Republicans in turning this matter to account. To make a sectional question of it is to play into their hands; it is exactly ' what they will try to do.' ' Well said ' observed a Northern M.C., loud enough for Clarence to hear. 'But thrashing a man don't prove him a liar; it rather implies that you can't answer him in any better way.' ' Nonsense ' rejoined a Southern traveller, indignantly. ' You cannot answer ribaldry. Did you read the report of Somers' speech ?' ' Yes, I did, 'replied the other. 'Mr. Derval has taken care that all the Union shall read it.' ' Well, sir, ' the Southerner retorted, ' suppose a Southern Senator so spok.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217551182 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217551181 |
| Weight | 0.50 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.34 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 146 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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