. Romances of Mobile . Battle House, Mobile 18. IN THE SHADOW OF FORT ST. LOUIS Nor locks, nor bars, nor voice of grim authority May serve to daunt the daring heart of youth; One god—Dan Cupid—rules by vast majority— Lords may command, but Love will win, forsooth. ■—Songs of the Gulf Lieutenant Henri Francois Carbonel was plainly ill at easeand in an evil frame of mind. His usually good-natured,bonny countenance was darkened by a most forbidding frownand he gazed out over a bastion of the new Fort St. Louis,set in an Alabama wilderness for the glory of France, with arebellious look that ill be
. Romances of Mobile . Battle House, Mobile 18. IN THE SHADOW OF FORT ST. LOUIS Nor locks, nor bars, nor voice of grim authority May serve to daunt the daring heart of youth; One god—Dan Cupid—rules by vast majority— Lords may command, but Love will win, forsooth. ■—Songs of the Gulf Lieutenant Henri Francois Carbonel was plainly ill at easeand in an evil frame of mind. His usually good-natured,bonny countenance was darkened by a most forbidding frownand he gazed out over a bastion of the new Fort St. Louis,set in an Alabama wilderness for the glory of France, with arebellious look that ill beset so brave and loyal an officer ofthe King. Before his eyes swept the brown waters of theMobile River, lapping the piling of the outer stockade, whileback of him the ground swept upward to a hill. To his leftlay a stretch of marsh, while on his right could be caught aglimpse of Mobile Bay over the shoulder of Choctaw Point. Zounds! he muttered, gnawing a verdant moustache,which he twirled the while fiercely. Am I not of an age tokn
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