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Telegraph! They had been telegraphing for days, but their telegrams have not yet been delivered.
On the evening when the camps of Johnston and Grant with burning Jackson between them put out half the stars a covered carriage, under the unsolicited escort of three or four gray-jacketed cavalrymen and driven by an infantry1 lad seeking his command after an illness at home, crossed Pearl River in a scow at Ratcliff's ferry just above the day's battlefield.
"When things are this bad," said the boy to the person seated beside him and to two others at their back, his allusion2 being to their self-appointed guard, "any man you find straggling to the front is the kind a lady can trust."
This equipage had come a three hours' drive, from the pretty town of Brandon, nearest point to which a railway train from the East would venture, and a glimpse into the vehicle would have shown you, behind Constance and beside Miranda, Anna, pale, ill, yet meeting every inquiry3 with a smiling request to push on. They were attempting a circuit of both armies to reach a third, Pemberton's, on the Big Black and in and around Vicksburg.
Thus incited4 they drove on in the starlight over the gentle hills of Madison county and did not accept repose5 until they had put Grant ten miles behind and crossed to the south side of the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad at Clinton village with only twenty miles more between them and Big Black Bridge. The springs of Anna's illness were more in spirit than body. Else she need not have lain sleepless6 that night at Clinton's many cross-roads, still confronting a dilemma7 she had encountered in Mobile.
In Mobile the exiles had learned the true whereabouts of the brigade, and of a battery then called Bartleson's as often as Kincaid's by a public which had half forgotten the seemingly well-established fact of Hilary's death. Therein was no new shock. The new shock had come when, as the three waited for telegrams, they stood before a vast ironclad still on the ways but offering splendid protection from Farragut's wooden terrors if only it could be completed, yet on which work had ceased for lack of funds though a greater part of the needed amount, already put up, lay idle
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infantry
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n.[总称]步兵(部队) | |
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allusion
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n.暗示,间接提示 | |
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n.打听,询问,调查,查问 | |
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刺激,激励,煽动( incite的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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repose
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v.(使)休息;n.安息 | |
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adj.不睡眠的,睡不著的,不休息的 | |
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justify
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bazaar
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salvation
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n.(尤指基督)救世,超度,拯救,解困 | |
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yearned
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渴望,切盼,向往( yearn的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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covertly
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plodded
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scouts
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侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员 | |
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渴望,热望( crave的过去式 ); 恳求,请求 | |
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drolly
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adv.古里古怪地;滑稽地;幽默地;诙谐地 | |
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