Thorold.
"How could they help submitting?"
"They say — it is said — that they would break off from the
North and set up for themselves. It is not foolish people that
say it, Mr. Thorold."
"Will you pardon me, Miss Randolph, but I think they would be
very foolish people that would do it."
"Oh, I think so too," I said. "I mean, that some people who
are not foolish, believe that it might happen."
"Perhaps," said Mr. Thorold. "I never heard anything of it
before. You are from the South yourself, Miss Randolph?" he
added, looking at me.
"I was born there," I said. And a little silence fell between
us. I was thinking. Some impression, got I suppose from my
remembrance of father and mother, Preston, and others whom I
had known, forbade me to dismiss quite so lightly, as too
absurd to be true, the rumour I had heard. Moreover, I trusted
Dr. Sandford's sources of information, living as he did in
habits of close social intercourse with men of influence and
position at Washington, both Southern and Northern.
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