With our ancestors a little washing went a long way." "Do you still live so in Virginia ?" asked Madeleine.
"Oh no, it is quite gone.

We live now like other country people, and try to pay our debts, which that generation never did.

They lived from hand to mouth.

They kept a stable-full of horses.

The young men were always riding about the country, betting on horse-races, gambling, drinking, fighting, and making love.