"Looks like it. What do you think of Fairfax Court-house? - and Great Bethel? - and Falling Waters, and so on?"
"That was bad, at Great Bethel," I said.
"Mismanagement -" said Mr. Thorold calmly.
"And at Vienna."
"No, the troops behaved well. They behaved well, Daisy. I am content with that."
"Do you think - don't be angry, Christian! - do you think the people of the North generally will make as fiery fighting men as the people of the South, who are used to fighting, and commanding, and the practice of arms?"
"When you get a quiet man angry, Daisy, he is the very worst man to deal with that you ever saw."
"But the people of the North are all accustomed to peaceful employments?"
Mr. Thorold laughed, looking down at me with infinite amusement and tenderness mixed.
"I see what your training has been," he said. "What will you do when you have one of those quiet people for your husband?"