I have ridden with him under fire and heard him crack jokes with Minie balls flying uncomfortably about.

Some one spoke kindly of him to old Ben Wade.
"Yes, yes," said Wade; "I never did believe in the doctrine of total depravity." But I am running ahead in advance of events.
VI There came in 1853 to the Thirty-third Congress a youngish, dapper and graceful man notable as the only Democrat in the Massachusetts delegation.

It was said that he had been a dancing master, his wife a work girl.

They brought with them a baby in arms with the wife's sister for its nurse--a mis-step which was quickly corrected.

I cannot now tell just how I came to be very intimate with them except that they lived at Willard's Hotel.