At a Girl's Mercy, or, The Fortunes of War — page 94: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

AT A GIRL’S MERCY. | $3 and the scene must close, one of the soldiers, a young fellow with sunny curls over his head, and eyes blue as the heavens, and a smile that deepened in his eyes like a lake when the wind stirs it, passed his hat among the company with a few remarks about wedding gifts being late, and when he emptied the contents in the lap of the dark little bride, she found herself the possessor of over a hundred dollars, and they had started without acent. And many a ‘“‘God speed”’ followed them ‘as they started out to find their new life together up North, where all are free. CHAPTER VIII. WAITING WITH FOLDED HANDS, Mrs. Courtland remained so long in that state of semi-insensibility, roused now and then into fits of delirium, that the doctors looked more and more se- rious over the case than they had at first appeared, but stating their fears to no one but the nurse. The blow had been so sudden and severe, at a time when her general health was too nervous from worry and anxiety regarding her boys, that the effect was more serious than it otherwise would have been. The squire guessed of their anxiety, and he was daily erowing to expect the worst when he left the Hall for the city, the day passing on leaden wings, mo- mentarily expecting, he scarcely knew what, of bad news, though he also kept the fact from Nan, who, in her own brave way, was fighting her own bat- tles alone, that her father should not have added burdens on his daily more stooping shoulders, or , more worry in his already too anxious state. She had grown into the habit of talking with him about the Eomicboo cS (E(@)