He ought to feel willing to give up some pleasures, if by so doing he can help to supply the places of those who are gone.
If he does this voluntarily, and in the right spirit, he is just as patriotic as if he were a soldier in the field." "I didn't think," thought Frank, "when I wrote this, how soon my words would come back to me.

It isn't much to write the words.

The thing is to stand by them.

If father should decide to go, I will do my best, and then, when the Rebellion is over, I shall feel that I did something, even if It wasn't much, toward putting it down." Frank put his essay carefully away in a bureau drawer in which he kept his clothes, and, spreading open his Latin lexicon, proceeded to prepare his lesson in the third book of Virgil's Aeneid..