Yet his eyes expressed admiration.
"I know your feelings," said Harry to the Virginian.
"Well, what are they?"
"You don't approve of de Langeais' lightness, which in your stern code
you would call levity, and yet you envy him possession of it. You don't
think it's right to be joyous, without a care, and yet you know it would
be mighty pleasant. You criticize de Langeais a little, but you feel it
would be a gorgeous thing to have that joyous spirit of his."
Dalton laughed.
"You're pretty near the truth," he said. "I haven't known de Langeais
so very long, but if he were to get killed I'd feel that I had lost a
younger brother."
"So would I."
Two immaculate youths, riding excellent horses, approached them, and
favored them with a long and supercilious stare.
"Can the large fair person be Lieutenant Kenton of the staff of the
commander-in-chief?" asked St. Clair.
"It can be and it is, although we did not think to see him again so soon,"
replied Happy Tom Langdon, "and the other--I do not allude to de Langeais--
is that spruce and devout young man, Lieutenant George Dalton, also of
the staff of the commander-in-chief."
"Why do we find them in such humble plight, walking on weary feet in a
path beside the road?"
"For the most excellent reason in the world, Arthur.
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