"He had been without anything to eat since yesterday."
"I should have imagined," said Clara, "that he had eaten nothing since the war broke out."
"Did he say anything in particular about himself?" I asked, with a recurrent touch of anxiety.
"He wasn't particular what he said about himself. Without in the least seeing the horror of it, he positively boasted of having been in the rebel army."
"Yes—a colonel."
"That makes it all the worse," replied Clara.
"But they had to have colonels, you know."
"Is Mr. Flagg a Virginian, or a Mississippian, or a Georgian?"
"No, my dear; he was born in the State of Maine; but he has lived so long in the South that he's quite one of them for the present. We must make allowances for him, Clara. Did he say anything else?"
"Oh, yes."