“Men like to fancy themselves broader and more judicial than women,” said Miss Thomasia, placidly.
Jacquelin mentioned casually that Middleton was not only quite a gentlemanly fellow, but a strikingly handsome one.
“A Yankee soldier good-looking! I’ll not believe that!” declared Miss Blair, promptly.
This debate created a diversion in their favor, and it was suggested and agreed to, as a compromise, that they should “wait until after a St. Ann Sunday, and see what the officers looked like. No doubt some of them would come to church, and then they could determine what they would do.”
This idea was feminine, and, to offset it, it was re-declared that at present they were “unanimously opposed to regarding them in any other light than that of bitter enemies.”
CHAPTER VIII
MR. HIRAM STILL TELLS HOW TO BRIDLE A SHY HORSE, AND CAPTAIN ALLEN LAYS DOWN HIS HOE
So Peace spread her white wings, extending her serenity and shedding her sweetness even in those regions where war had passed along.