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HOT-FOOT HANNIBAL

"I HATE you and despise you! I wish never to see you or speak to you again!" 

"Very well; I will take care that henceforth you have no opportunity to do either." 

These words- the first in the passionately vibrant tones of my sister-in-law, and the latter in the deeper and more restrained accents of an angry man- started me from my nap. I had been dozing in my hammock on the front piazza, behind the honeysuckle vine. I had been faintly aware of a buzz of conversation in the parlor, but had not at all awakened to its import until these sentences fell, or, I might rather say, were hurled upon my ear. I presume the young people had either