Now they packed their trunks, and took unto them 'poor Eustis,' and many others equally talented and important.
Not forgetting their wives, neither their man-servants nor their maid-servants, their wines nor their cigars.
Howbeit they took not with them the bonds of the Confederacy, lest the Paris shop-keepers should say, 'Go to—it is naught;'
But divers eagles and dimes, stolen afore-time from Uncle Sam, took they. Likewise bills of exchange and circular letters of credit upon certain of the Jews.
And so they went down unto the sea in ships,—even in a steam-ship,—sailing to the Havana, where she was unladed of her burden.
CHAPTER III.
[THE SONG OF REJOICING.]
Now when the ambassadors, and they which bore the words of the king, had sailed.
Lo, there was great rejoicing in all Secessia,—there was naught heard save the voices of renegade Northern editors,—[for that the Southerners know not to write],—
Saying, 'Come, let us be glad; laugh, O thou my soul.