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You will summon all your courage to meet
the trial and prove yourself a soldier's wife, my Inez?"
"I am ready to depart this instant. The letter you sent by the
physician, had prepared me to hope for the best, and I have every
thing arranged for flight, at the shortest warning."
"Let us then leave this place and join our friends."
"Friends!" interrupted Inez, glancing her eyes around the little tent
in quest of the form of Ellen. "I, too, have a friend who must not be
forgotten, but who is pledged to pass the remainder of her life with
us. She is gone!"
Middleton gently led her from the spot, as he smilingly answered--
"She may have had, like myself, her own private communications for
some favoured ear."
The young man had not however done justice to the motives of Ellen
Wade. The sensitive and intelligent girl had readily perceived how
little her presence was necessary in the interview that has just been
related, and had retired with that intuitive delicacy of feeling which
seems to belong more properly to her sex.


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