. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . topossess you unworthily. The lady gazed on him in wonder. But Victor continued: My path in the future will berugged and thorny; j^et I shall pursue it. I shall even bear 480 THE EEBEUS DAUGHTEB. the loss of your fathers love, of your brothers esteem,—heart-woven friends though they were. And I will not chidememory when it taunts me with ingratitude ; for I am patient,and God, in his infinite mercy, will grant me further Oh, Eleonora, who will save me from despair, when somefoul fiend, in an unguarded hour, shall take ad
. The rebel's daughter; a story of love, politics, and war . topossess you unworthily. The lady gazed on him in wonder. But Victor continued: My path in the future will berugged and thorny; j^et I shall pursue it. I shall even bear 480 THE EEBEUS DAUGHTEB. the loss of your fathers love, of your brothers esteem,—heart-woven friends though they were. And I will not chidememory when it taunts me with ingratitude ; for I am patient,and God, in his infinite mercy, will grant me further Oh, Eleonora, who will save me from despair, when somefoul fiend, in an unguarded hour, shall take advantage of myweakness, mocking my aching heart with jeering taunt: Howcruel conscience tricked it of its due! Victor! exclaimed the lady, in a tone blending entreatyand wonder, as he slowly left her presence. He paid no heed. Leslie returned, and asked: What did the knave want ofyou ? He is no knave, Leslie! exclaimed Nellie gazing at thedoor through which Victor had disappeared. What do you mean? asked Leslie, as they were leavingthe room. He is a PART THIRD:DEMOCRACY RUN WILD. XXXI. A CATALEPTIC GOVERNMENT. HE interval between the election of President Lincolnand his inauguration witnessed the anomalous spectacleof a government professing itself incompetent, as beingunauthorized by the terms of its organization, to assert andvindicate its own existence. The monster Secession, a many-headed hydra, assailed the Union, striking its venomous fangsinto the vitals of the ReiDublic. From one after another of thesulking States came the audacious announcement, that it hadsevered the bond between it and the Federal Republic, therebyresuming its sovereignty as an independent State. In words ofhaughty bravado the Federal government was cautionedagainst exercising any authority within the borders of thenewly proclaimed sovereignty. While yet sitting in the hallsof Congress at Washington, participating in its deliberationsconcerning the new condition of things, Southern senatorswer
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