Their glances met; their blushing cheeks were near each
other; the presence of her, whom he loved so much, seemed to have
brought back life to the shattered frame.
An hour afterward he was moved to "Five Forks," where he was tenderly
cared for. The old statesman had forgotten his life-long prejudice, and
was the first to do all in his power to save the boy.
A month afterward he was convalescent. A week more and he was well. In
the summer of 1865 he was married to Virginia Conway.
As for Mohun, his marriage ceremony, so singularly interrupted, had
been resumed and completed an hour after the death of the unfortunate
Darke and his companion.
XXII.
"THE LINE HAS BEEN STRETCHED UNTIL IT HAS BROKEN, COLONEL.".
At nightfall, on the first of April, the immense struggle had really
ended.
Lee's whole right was swept away; he was hemmed in, in Petersburg; what
remained for General Grant was only to give the _coup de grace_ to the
great adversary, who still confronted him, torn and shattered, but with
a will and courage wholly unbroken.
It is not an exaggeration, reader. Judge for yourself. I am to show you
Lee as I saw him in this moment of terrible trial: still undaunted,
raising his head proudly amid the crash of all around him; great in the
hour of victory; in the hour of ruin, sublime.
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