Pierre seized her hands in his. He drew her to him, kissing the scars again and again.
“My Lizette,” he whispered, “I did not know before what love was—this love of soul and body!”
And Lizette, raising her head, clasped her hands together.
“It is the miracle of Little Noël,” she said.
THE IMPEACHMENT OF ANDREW JOHNSON
INTRODUCTION
No period of our history better repays perusal by thoughtful readers and good citizens than the political happenings of the three years following the Civil War, culminating in the attempt to “recall” President Johnson. But the subject is so vast that no magazine article can more than suggest its outlines, or sketch the personalities involved in the first efforts to reëstablish civil order in the South.
Probably no actor in that series of passionate events could write of them without some bias; nor would any picture be quite true without the perspective due to individual experience.