When he came over to Castlewood and taught us boys surveying, to see him riding to hounds was as if he was charging an army.

If he fired a shot, I thought the bird must come down, and if be flung a net, the largest fish in the river were sure to be in it.

His words were always few, but they were always wise; they were not idle, as our words are, they were grave, sober, and strong, and ready on occasion to do their duty.

In spite of his antipathy to him, my brother respected and admired the General as much as I did--that is to say, more than any mortal man." Mr.Washington was the first to leave the jovial party which were doing so much honour to Madam Esmond's hospitality.

Young George Esmond, who had taken his mother's place when she left it, had been free with the glass and with the tongue.