Confederates
“Captain Stilwell was a kindly but patriotic man of nearly seventy years of age. He had got his rank during the Indian wars over in the western counties in the ’20s. Now he was recruiting-and-conscription officer for Bath County, Virginia, and he worked from a corner of his large dry-goods business in Warm Springs. In the past week he had served conscription notices on some one hundred or more feckless mountain boys who hadn’t managed to hide in the hills or to outride him.
On the day of Aunt Sa...rrie’s visit to Warm Springs, he had been lunching at the Springs Hotel with some of the other town worthies and was walking out of the dining room with them, smoking a rotten wartime cigar, when he saw a plain but live-eyed woman of about fifty years sitting in the lobby and looking about as good as she could hope to in a yellow dress and a small green hat. I know that woman, he thought. Why, that’s Sarrie Muswell, looking not at all like a widder. Her eyes met his. He told his friends to excuse him and went out and bowed at her.MoreLess
On the day of Aunt Sa...rrie’s visit to Warm Springs, he had been lunching at the Springs Hotel with some of the other town worthies and was walking out of the dining room with them, smoking a rotten wartime cigar, when he saw a plain but live-eyed woman of about fifty years sitting in the lobby and looking about as good as she could hope to in a yellow dress and a small green hat. I know that woman, he thought. Why, that’s Sarrie Muswell, looking not at all like a widder. Her eyes met his. He told his friends to excuse him and went out and bowed at her.MoreLess
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