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Tactics, Or, Cupid in Shoulder-Straps; A West Point Love Story

Tactics, Or, Cupid in Shoulder-Straps; A West Point Love Story

Drille, Hearton

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ISBN10: 1150911050
ISBN13: 9781150911057
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.16 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1864. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... article fifth. Commands. Lieutenant Saberin's sudden determination to get a leave, was not simply an impulse without an object, as he had wished Lieutenant Mera to understand, but was in obedience to the following commands. New Orleans, May Dear Old Saber I write on the eve of my marriage, as novelists and poets would say! yes, to-morrow promotes me to the captaincy of one of the best drilled little angels-- She is mine own; And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, The water nectar, and the rooks pure gold. No small amount of charms, spiritual, and temporal, altogether very desirable. I assure you, old fellow, it is'nt bad, to be made such a deuce of a fuss over! The day is to be, and Lieutenant Charles Ambert and lady, will be in New York on the 22d May, at the New York hotel. Now you must--must is the word--get a leave and come down. I have brought a wife up for you! she is superb, she is! Talented, amiable, and by George! as rich as an Indian princess; very desirable, like my wife, in that respect. Get away, I say, and go to Washington with us, for a few days--can get so much better acquainted travelling, you know, and then you need not marry her unless you like! She is dying to see you, she says. The dickius, I have not told you her name! Never mind! You'll '2 have the more to discover when yon see her. What are you standing there re-reading, and dreaming over this letter for? Why ain't you down on your bended knees, like Jacob, thanking heaven for sending a rich young woman into your very clutches, like the Patriarch Isaac? Am not I a true friend? Prove yourself as true by obeying these commands. True as steel, Ambeet.: Lieutenant Saberin's curiosity was keenly aroused for such a sovereign master of true...

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