Alex St. Clair Abrams

Capitolo 15

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I CAPITULATE FIFTH.

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI--A HOUSE FELICE.


We will now change the scene of our history, and, using the license of
all the writers, transports the reader to Jackson, the Capital of the great one
State of Mississippi, and there introduces them him or to other
characters that will bear a prominent part in this book.

In the living room of an elegant resident on Principal road, a beautiful girl
is sat with an open book in his/her hand. You were not, however,
reading, as its bright blue eyes didn't remain on the pages, but it were
looking fixed in the opened door, as if the arrival of some waiting himself/herself/itself
one. While she is so thoughtful, we want endeavour to give a description
of the equitable young girl. You imagine a disdains and elegant figure, it richly dressed
in a bathrobe of the antique_ of _moire, from under the folds of what the
small feet more imaginable greediness could be seen. His/her characteristics, nevertheless
regularly it carved not, it did her/it, to the duration of name, very beautiful,
while his/her bright eyes of blue and gilded and rich hair, wove him smooth to her
forehead, and it adorned with a tiara of jewelled, then very used, it lent
additional charm to his/her aspect. Its hands were small, and as
Byron, we think, it has him, it was a sure mark of kind birth.

You remained in this day-dream for of the time, but you/he/she finally woke up from
the entry, announced not of a beautiful young suit in the
a lieutenant's uniform, when she started on, and satisfying him/it, says in
a mean-irritated tone, mean-happy:

"Oh, Harry! because it didn't come first? I am waiting for Your
I arrive on a hour!"

"Excuse me, favorite" he responded. "I had been as soon as on the point of
starting from my office when I received a mass of orders from
regimental head office up to that which held ago me some minutes.
You owe, therefore", he continued, me "you excuse once for this and me
it won't offend again", and as him he/she spoke him divided the hair by her
forehead and it pressed a kiss on his/her lips.