I _was_ young; but I had arrived to years of womanhood, and my stature equalled hers.
"I will pass on to the scene which decided my destiny.

I do not wish to swell the volume of my life.

Let it be brief as it is sad.
"Very near the fortress is another rocky bulwark, rising out of the waves in stern and rugged majesty, known by the peculiar name of the Rip-Raps.

It is the work of man, who paved the ocean bed with rocks, and conceived the design of a lofty castle, from whose battlements the star-spangled banner should wave, and whose massy turrets should perpetuate the honors of Carolina's most gifted son.

The design was grand, but has never been completed.