Her heart clings to the South, as ours do; yet, like us, she has a strong love for the old Union.
"And she's very found of her husband, who, she says, is very strong for the Government; and then, besides her distress at the thought that he will enlist, her heart is torn with anguish because her brothers and his are in the opposing armies.
"Oh, Edward! isn't it terrible?
Civil war in our dear land! So many whom we love on both sides!" There was a moment of sorrowful silence.

Then her father asked, "What does Enna say ?" "She is very bitter, papa: speaks with great contempt of the North; exults over the fall of Fort Sumter and the seizure of United States property; glories in the war-spirit of Dick and Arthur, and sneers at poor Walter because he is silent and sad, and declines, for the present at least, to take any part in the strife.

Grandpa, she says, and his mother, too, are almost ready to turn him out of the house; for they are as hot secessionists as can be found anywhere.
"I have a letter from Walter too, papa.

He writes in a very melancholy strain; hints mildly at the treatment he receives at home; says he can't bear the idea of fighting against the old flag, and still less the old friends he has at the North, and wishes he was with us or anywhere out of the country, that he might escape being forced to take part in the quarrel." "Poor fellow!" sighed Mr.Dinsmore.

"Ah, I have a letter here from my father that I have not yet opened." He took it from the table as he spoke.