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Unhappy Callender House! Whether "oppressors" or "oppressed" had earliest or oftenest in that first year of the captivity1 lifted against it the accusing finger it would be hard to tell.
When the Ship Island transports bore their blue thousands up the river, and the streets roared a new drum-thunder, before the dark columns had settled down in the cotton-yards, public squares, Carrollton suburb and Jackson Barracks, Callender House--you may guess by whose indirection--had come to the notice of a once criminal lawyer, now the plumed2 and emblazoned general-in-chief, to whom, said his victims (possibly biased), no offense3 or offender4 was too small for his hectoring or chastisement5.
The women in that house, that nest of sedition6, he had been told, at second-hand7, had in the very dawn of secession completely armed the famous "Kincaid's Battery" which had early made it hot for him about Yorktown. Later in that house they had raised a large war-fund--still somewhere hidden. The day the fleet came up they had sent their carriage-horses to Beauregard, helped signal the Chalmette fortifications, locked ten slaves in the dwelling8 under shell fire and threatened death to any who should stir to escape. So for these twelve months, with only Isaac, Ben, and their wives as protectors and the splendid freedom to lock themselves in, they had suffered the duress9 of a guard camped in the grove10, their every townward step openly watched and their front door draped with the stars and stripes, under which no feminine acquaintance could be
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captivity
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chastisement
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sedition
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dwelling
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诱惑,怂恿( entice的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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judgment
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distressed
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flora
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lameness
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calumny
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incensed
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perfectly
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lawful
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abjured
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loyalty
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timorous
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contraband
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ardently
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concealment
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transparent
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stigma
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stupor
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victorious
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eastward
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adv.向东;adj.向东的;n.东方,东部 | |
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northward
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creeks
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n.小湾( creek的名词复数 );小港;小河;小溪 | |
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