But, as writes the venerable biographer, it was salutary in the end.

It strengthened their souls for the future trial.

It made them more resolute in the play.

With their own houses in smoking ruins, and their own wives and children homeless and wandering, they could better feel what was due to the sufferings of their common country.
It was at sunset the next evening that Marion commenced his flight to North Carolina.

He kept with him only sixty men.