Another instant and I shall never again see the sun, this water, that gorge!. There - they are shouting again, and again are all running back somewhere, and I shall run with them, and it, death, is here above me and around. groans, suffering, fear, and this uncertainty and hurry. 'In myself alone and in that sunshine there is so much happiness but here. 'I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I were there,' thought Róstov. And fairer still were the far away blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in mist to their summits. How beautiful the sky looked how blue, how calm, and how deep! How bright and glorious was the setting sun! With that soft glitter the water of the distant Danube shone. “Nicholas Róstov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the sun. "Even if he wins votes, he also sows hatred.” Red light from the torches flickered off his spectacle lenses. "I know what you mean, sir." But Marshall, as if drawn by some horrid fascination, kept watching the orator. Lee went on, "I confess to a certain amount of embarrassment at representing the same nation as does this eloquent fellow." To emphasize his distaste, he turned half away from the shouting, gesticulating man up on the platform. "How right you are," Lee replied, as appalled as his aide at the oratory: the speaker had just called the Northerners cold blooded, fat-faced, nigger-loving moneygrubbers. Had he ever faced the Yankees in battle, he would own far more respect for their man hood than he currently displays." Listening to a pro-Confederate orator thunder abuse at the North at a torchlight rally one night in Frankfort, Charles Marshall made a sour face and said, "Anyone can tell he spent the war safely far away from the firing lines. Every politician, Northern and Southern, who could stand on a stump and put one word after another, or ten thousand after another ten, flooded into the two states to tell their people just why they should choose the United States or the Confederacy. That did not mean no one invaded Kentucky and Missouri, however. “Lee was pleased at how well both sides held to their pledges of keeping soldiers out of the disputed states.
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