With a traitor to his State, or a
coward--no, I will never say God bless you! and never do you take my
name on your lips from this day. I would die of shame to have it known
that I was ever loved by an Arnold! Go! leave me; and if you raise
your arm against the South, I hope you may not live to feel the shame
which will follow you.'
"I met Harry again on the lawn, and he exclaimed:
"'Good-by, Paul. Give us your hand. You are honest, and will sacrifice
everything, I see; but you are all wrong. God bless you!
"And he threw his arms round me, and so I left them.
"I cannot tell you how I suffered. It seems as if I have lived a
century since then. Did I not know the unbounded pride of a Southern
girl, I should doubt her ever loving me. I have never mentioned her
name since that day, and never shall. Now, my friend, you see I have
little to live for. Soon after my arrival in Boston the Sixteenth was
forming. I enlisted, to the horror of my aunt, as a private. My friend
would have procured me a commission, but I preferred to go in the
ranks and work my way up if I lived, and here is my commission,
received after you left yesterday. I brought my colonel off the field,
and was wounded when I went to get him.
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