My words were too much in tune with his declared opinions for him to gainsay them.
"It comes to this, then," he said at length.

"You have raised a body of men who are waiting marching orders.

What next, Mr.Garvald ?" "The next thing is to march.

After what befell on the Rapidan, we cannot sit still." He started.

"I have heard nothing of it." Then I told him the horrid tale.