And so six months elapsed, when, at the recommendation of Sir John, Israel procured a good berth in the garden of the Princess Amelia.
So completely now had recent events metamorphosed him in all outward things, that few suspected him of being any other than an Englishman.
Not even the knight's domestics.

But in the princess's garden, being obliged to work in company with many other laborers, the war was often a topic of discussion among them.

And "the d--d Yankee rebels" were not seldom the object of scurrilous remark.

Illy could the exile brook in silence such insults upon the country for which he had bled, and for whose honored sake he was that very instant a sufferer.

More than once, his indignation came very nigh getting the better of his prudence.