Capitolo 39
He had enlisted from preference in an old regiment, already in
Virginia, of the members of what you/he/she had gone from Rossville. A number
of recruits it would be expeditious to the field in a certain day,
and that day was nearby now to course of hand.
Allow me to introduce the reader to the agricultural house in the last evening
for many months when they would be able to be together. They was
all assembled on the hearth. The Mr. Frost sat in an armchair,
Charles that holds in his/her womb--the privileged place of the more youth.
Alice, with the air of a youth he/she sat reservedly from her
father's side on a cricket, while Maggie was standing close to him, with
a hand that he/she remains on his/her knee. Frank quietly sat close to his
mother, as if already the place that he was in expectancy occupying
tender as his/her adviser and protecting.
Frank and his/her mother seemed sober. They had not fully understood
up to this evening what would be to divide with his/her husband and
father--as him they would continually miss to the meal of family and
in the evening the circle. There was then the terrible uncertainty of
war. It is probable that he never returns, or, if you/he/she is saved for that, it is probable that I/you/he/she am
with broken constitution or the loss of an edge.
"If you/he/she had not been for me", Frank could not help thinking,
"father would not be going away now. He would have been to
house, and me he/she anchors I could go to school. You/he/she would have done a great
you differentiate to us, and the loss of a man could not strike the
resulted general."
A moment after its conscience reproached him/it to lodge this way
selfish a thought.
"The country has also need of him that we do", he told him.
"It will be a hard test to have to go him/it, but it is our duty."
"Will my small Charles miss I when I have gone?" asked to the Mr. Frost
of the boy chubby-faced that he/she sat with the great one, round eyes peering at
in the fire, as if he was taken part deeply in thought.
"Won't he/she take me with you, dad?" Asked Charles.