The Man Without a Country — Vocabulary
Edward E. Hale
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But none of the officers did; and just as the captain was sending forward to ask if any of the people could, Nolan stepped out and said he should be glad to interpret, if the captain wished, as he understood the language.3 more

everybody was permitted to lend him books, if they were not published in America and made no allusion to it.3 more

addressing him in every dialect1 more

Even the negroes themselves stopped howling, as they saw Nolan's agony, and Vaughan's almost equal agony of sympathy.†

Danger or no danger, delicacy or no delicacy, who was I, that I should have been acting the tyrant all this time over this dear, sainted old man, who had years ago expiated, in his whole manhood's life, the madness of a boys treason?†1 more

Only, when the grand catastrophe came, and Jefferson and the House of Virginia of that day undertook to break on the wheel all the possible Clarences of the then House of York, by the great treason trial at Richmond, some of the lesser fry in that distant Mississippi Valley, which was farther from us than Puget's Sound is to-day, introduced the like novelty on their provincial stage; and, to while away the monotony of the summer at Fort Adams, got up, for spectacles, a string of court-martials on the officers there.†

Proofreaders do not like them, but they give a plausibility to the story.

It was copied everywhere without the slightest deference to copyright.

In truth, it was the death of Nolan ... which roused that wave of indignation in the Southwest which ended in the independence of Texas.

spontaneous worship of Vaughan

I, who did not understand anything of the passion involved in it, saw that the very elements were melting with fervent heat,

to do this would be virtually to reveal to him what had happened,

to while away the monotony of the summer at Fort Adams

I told him of meeting the Oregon Congressman, Harding; I told him about the Smithsonian, and the Exploring Expedition; I told him about the Capitol, and the statues for the pediment, and Crawford's Liberty, and Greenough's Washington: Ingham, I told him everything I could think of that would show the grandeur of his country and its prosperity; but I could not make up my mouth to tell him a word about this infernal rebellion!†

Ingham, I told him everything I could think of that would show the grandeur of his country and its prosperity; but I could not make up my mouth to tell him a word about this infernal rebellion!2 more

It was the intention of this parable, which describes the life of one man who tried to separate himself from his country, to show how terrible was his mistake.†1 more

There was his double red mark down the page; and I knelt down and read, and he repeated with me, 'For ourselves and our country, O gracious God, we thank These, that, notwithstanding our manifold transgressions of Thy holy laws, Thou hast continued to us Thy marvellous kindness,'—and so to the end of that thanksgiving.†

At that moment Asia, Africa, and Europe were scenes of similar discord.

The black band, nothing loath, conferred as to what "American dances" were, and started off with "Virginia Reel," which they followed with "Money-Musk," which, in its turn in those days, should have been followed by "The Old Thirteen."†

our manifold transgressions of Thy holy laws,