17/17 Don't you remember what victories you prophesied for me--how much I boasted myself very likely over your good wine? 'Tis kind of your ladyship to receive a poor beaten fellow as you do:" and the young soldier hung down his head. He was about to say something friendly to Mr.Washington, had not his mother, to whom the Colonel had been speaking, replied herself: "Kind of us to receive you, Colonel Washington!" said the widow. "I never heard that when men were unhappy, our sex were less their friends." And she made the Colonel a very fine curtsey, which straightway caused her son to be more jealous of him than ever.. |