However, Frederic Seemed Pleased, And Made Some Modest Little Speech And Then Fell Into An Abstracted Silence, Gazing On The

Great flag which was stretched across the hall at one end, and from behind which some few soldiers who were

Going to assist in serving the supper were passing in and out. I fell in with his mood immediately, as he was a person with whom formality was impossible, and said: "What are you looking at, Mr. Remington?" He replied, turning upon me his round boyish face and his blue eyes gladdening, "I was just thinking I wished I was behind in there where those blue jackets are - you know - behind that flag with the soldiers - those are the men I like to study, you know, I don't like all this fuss and feathers of society" - then, blushing at his lack of gallantry, he added: "It's all right, of course, pretty women and all that, and I suppose you think I'm dreadful and - do you want me to dance with you - that's the proper thing here isn't it?" Whereupon, he seized me in his great arms and whirled me around at a pace I never dreamed of, and, once around, he said, "that's enough of this thing, isn't it, let's sit down, I believe I'm going to like you, though I'm not much for women." I said "You must come over here often;" and he replied, "You've got a lot of jolly good fellows over here and I will do it."

Afterwards, the Remingtons and ourselves became the closest friends.

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