Ticonderoga; Or, the Black Eagle (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER Til. With great pain Lord H contemplated the task before him; but his was a firm and resolute heart; and he strode forward quickly to accomplish it as soon as possible. Fancy painted, as he went, all the grief and anguish he was about to inflict upon Edith; but Fancy hardly did her justice?for it left out of the picture many of the stronger traits of her character. The beautiful girl was watching from the window, and at once recognised her lover as he issued from the wood alone. Her heart sank with apprehension, it is true; nevertheless sheran out along the little path to meet him, in order to know the worst at once. Before they met, her father came forth from the wood, slowly and heavily, with a crowd of boatmen and soldiers following in groups of six or seven at a time. With wonderful accuracy she divined the greater part of what had occurred. She instantly stopped till Lord H came up, and then inquired, in a low and tremulous voice? "Have you found him? Is he dead or living ?" " We have not found him, dear Edith," said Lord H-, taking her hand, and leading her towards the house; " but your father conceives there is great cause for apprehension of the very worst kind, from what we have found. I trust, however, that his fears go beyond the reality, and that there is still?" " Oh, dear George, do not keep me in suspense !" ejaculated Edith. " Let me hear allat once. My mind is sufficiently prepared by long hours of painful thought. I will show none of the weakness I displayed this morning. "What is it you have found ?" " His knife and his knapsack," replied Lord H . " He may have cast his knapsack off from weariness," said Edith, still catching at a hope. " I fear not," replied her lover, unwilling to encourage expectations to b...