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BORNE BACK TO LIFE. 29^<br />

annoyance to him. He almost sprained<br />

his ancle in coming down, and his undress<br />

uniform bore marks <strong>of</strong> the stones against<br />

which it had come in contact. " I hope<br />

the next appointment Mrs. Thornton<br />

makes, she'll choose a pleasanter meeting<br />

place," was his thought. He was un-<br />

grateful enough just then to be angry even<br />

with <strong>her</strong>, and he left the Fort in a frame<br />

<strong>of</strong> mind that showed itself sufficiently in<br />

•<br />

his face. He was every way vexed, grieved<br />

more than he liked to own, at not having<br />

recovered his letters, and angry with Mrs.<br />

Thornton because he felt that she would<br />

consider she had some right to be angry<br />

with him. He passed the shrimper who<br />

had seen <strong>her</strong> go into the Fort, and Avho<br />

was now returning homeward with his<br />

nets full <strong>of</strong> his small victims, without<br />

answering the man's civil " good-day," and<br />

passed hastily on, leaving the ot<strong>her</strong> looking<br />

wonderingly after him.

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