id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ward-jasper-1851	ward	ward-jasper-1851	1851		.txt	text/plain	138598	5003	70	In rear of the house, within the trellised passage, was a little corps de reserve of young men and matrons, the latter being in charge of spare ammunition, and provided each with a brace of pistols, which they had earned the use of by experience. The women, children, and old men, occupying the wagon bivouac, were fain to be content with the news they received occasionally from their friends at their homesteads; the Trails kept the even tenor of their way in the school, and among the humble people of the settlement; and Ormsby, unable to restrain his passion for Marion, was in a serious dilemma between his wish to remain and Frankfort's advice to him to rejoin his regiment at once, if he was not in earnest.	cache/ward-jasper-1851.txt	txt/ward-jasper-1851.txt