THROUGH A GLASS LIGHTLY
Consulship of Plancus and the like of him. For the romance of war is still in its blood, the war of North and South, the War of Secession, when a glamour hung over Charleston as a halo. For old Jarrow of Manchester bought and fitted out a steamer at his own charges, as a gentleman should, and freighted it with arms and ammunition, forage and provant, and all things dear and precious to a beleaguered city. And for this latter end he sought help and equipment, among others, from our own progenitor, who, God bless him! stayed neither hand nor purse. And so this bark of good omen steamed bravely over the Mersey Bar, and as to what perils she ran through and what success achieved, are they not written in the ledgers of Jarrow and his compeers? But
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