He seems to have been greater in the character of a home-sick Virginia planter than as General or President.

I forgive him his inordinate dulness, for he was not a diplomatist and it was not his business to lie, but he might once in a way have forgotten Mount Vernon." Dunbeg here burst in with an excited protest; all his words seemed to shove each other aside in their haste to escape first.

"All our greatest Englishmen have been home-sick country squires.

I am a home-sick country squire myself." "How interesting!" said Miss Dare under her breath.
Mr.Gore here joined in: "It is all very well for you gentlemen to measure General Washington according to your own private twelve-inch carpenter's rule.

But what will you say to us New Englanders who never were country gentlemen at all, and never had any liking for Virginia?
What did Washington ever do for us?
He never even pretended to like us.
He never was more than barely civil to us.