But the twin of my new-born humility, paradoxical as it may seem, was a sense of dignity I had never known before.

For if I found that I was a person of small consequence, I discovered at the same time that I was more nobly related than I had ever supposed.

I had relatives and friends who were notable people by the old standards,--I had never been ashamed of my family,--but this George Washington, who died long before I was born, was like a king in greatness, and he and I were Fellow Citizens.

There was a great deal about Fellow Citizens in the patriotic literature we read at this time; and I knew from my father how he was a Citizen, through the process of naturalization, and how I also was a citizen, by virtue of my relation to him.

Undoubtedly I was a Fellow Citizen, and George Washington was another.