When I get upon the war, I grow too much excited.

I knew you were from Baltimore, and I was fearful you might uphold that infernal mob which murdered the brave Massachusetts boys.

I could lay that city in ashes." Irving took the offered hand, and answered, good humoredly: "That would punish the innocent as well as the guilty, so I am not with you there, though, like you, I recoil in horror from the perpetration of that fiendish attack upon peaceable troops.

I was there myself, and did what I could to quiet the tumult, receiving more than one brickbat for my interference.

One word more, Cousin Hugh, I am not going to Europe to be rid of the trouble, or for pleasure either, but as my sister's escort.