The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-06-16
CHAPTER VII.
EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER.

CHAPTER VII. la i..it.
EIGHTEEN YEARS AFTER. l.,y 10
Going home! Do you know, man.
ma, it is the oldest thought possible
that we are really to have home at
lastp'',, .r r q
The speaker leaned against the bull
wark of the great ship, looking, not
backward at the receding shores they
were fast leaving behind, but forward
where the blue sea melted into the blue
sky, as if she saw the castle of her fam
cies painted there. ,aer. fla d.
MY country, tbs of thee,
Ilnp Sweet land of liberty, lGIal -IfrW -
OF thee L sing" ..
she hummed. "Going to America! Co
ing to the United States! Going home!
wonder if, the reality will come half
way to the expectations l have formed
of it?' yI9y : 81 .tsa9Irt Il. 1.t g.
Dana liphant glanced around in ex.
pectation of response, but mamma
was talking to the tall gentleman upon
whose arm she leaned, and giving very
little heed to her impulsiye daughter;
but the young lady met a pair Of smiling
eyes in a masculine head, lighted with
sympathy and perhaps admiration-met
that look, and met her fate. She was
not aware of this important fact. She
only knew that she had caught an ex-
ceedingly good-looking young gentle
man watching her as if she were
pleasant sight, then both pairs of eyes
fell; the gentleman addressed himself
to the ''shores of Albion" fading in tho
distance; Dana went back to her
dreams of the future beyond the track
less blue sea which spread out before
her. ' f
Dreams which were broken by the
ringing of the dinner bell, and hun
bred people trooped down the compan-
ionway and were seated at the long
tables in the saloon, where glass and
silver cleaned, and flowers and ferns
decorated the room. A hundred people
scanned the passenger list, which lay
neatly folded beside every plate, and
studied their fellow-voyagers with more
or less interest, but did justice to the
dainty viands spread before them never
theless, for was not the time coming
when Ito eat" would be phrase ex-
plunged from the lexicon of their expert.
ence2 .
There was a general flocking back to
the deck when dinner was over Mr.,
Oliphant was too old traveller to be
affected by the. choppy waves of the
channel which soon began to tell upon
the more susceptible ones, and prone
naded the deck with his daughter on his
arm, his wife seated in a sunny spot
with one or two acquaintance near her,
joining sometimes in their conversation,
sometimes lost in watching the dimpling
water iiAl y.
~ don't believe mamma is more than
half glad at going back cried Dana,
suddenly. Just look how silent and
thoughtful she appears. You and l.
papa, have more patriotism in our
veins. You are better already with the
mere thought of going home" ID
THAT is because my invalidism is
only notion. But how pat you are
with that going home, you, who never
set foot upon your native soil. - .u
II was born there, and it is once a
Yankee, always Yankee, with me.
You feel the same way yourself, papa;
l know it.by your look.n .a 7. p,
Zone spot of the earth is about as
good as another TO me while l have my
dear ones with me-" said papa, fondly.
However, | shall be glad to get home
once more"
THAT is why l wonder at mamma.
She is generally so pleased at whatever
pleases you,n ..d,....t ut ,4+
1.-THE greatest affiiction of her life
befell her there, Dana" returned her
father, gravely, ''and it is only natural
that it should come up in her mind
now. We must go over and cheer
herr p H'I t1iT. 4 .'I0 o..
g The greatest affliction of her life,
repeated Dana. 1T wasn't adopting
me, was it?" with a saucy, upward
glance. tuIf r0I..lI uI -rI lib
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