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LXIII THE IRON-CLAD OATH
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Under Anna's passive air lay a vivid alertness to every fact in range of eye or ear.
Any least thing now might tip the scale for life or death, and while at the head of the veranda1 steps she spoke2 of happiness her distressed3 thought was of Hilary's madcap audacity4, how near at hand he might be even then, under what fearful risk of recognition and capture. She was keenly glad to hear two men complain that the guard about the house and grounds was to-day a new one awkward to the task. Of less weight now it seemed that out on the river the despatch-boat had shifted her berth5 down-stream and with steam up lay where the first few wheel turns would put her out of sight. Indoors, where there was much official activity, it relieved her to see that neither Hilary's absence nor her coming counted large in the common regard. The brace6 of big generals were in the library across the hall, busy on some affair much larger than this of "ourn."
The word was the old coachman Israel's. What a tender joy it was to find him in the wretched drawing-room trying to make it decent for her and dropping his tears as openly as the maid. With what a grace, yet how boldly, he shut the door between them and blue authority. While the girl arranged on a table, for Anna's use, a basket of needlework brought with them he honestly confessed his union loyalty7, yet hurriedly, under his breath, bade Anna not despair, and avowed8 a devotion to the safety and comfort of "ole mahs's and mis's sweet baby" as then and forever his higher law. He was still autocrat9 of the basement, dropsied with the favor of colonels and generals,
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