The Ladies of the White HouseH. H. Bancroft & Company, 1870 - 658 من الصفحات |
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... husband and children . Endeared to each other by the warmest affection , her life spent in dispensing that hospitality which was deemed a duty and a virtue , it seemed as if no trouble could ever mar her happiness . Colonel Custis was a ...
... husband and children . Endeared to each other by the warmest affection , her life spent in dispensing that hospitality which was deemed a duty and a virtue , it seemed as if no trouble could ever mar her happiness . Colonel Custis was a ...
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... husband and child were the mysteries of the inscrutable will of Providence , whereby she was to accomplish her destiny . The war with the French and Indians in the West , and the defeat and death of Braddock , was the first incident of ...
... husband and child were the mysteries of the inscrutable will of Providence , whereby she was to accomplish her destiny . The war with the French and Indians in the West , and the defeat and death of Braddock , was the first incident of ...
الصفحة 20
... husband's camp , she trusted it would be the last ; and each time as the servants cooked and packed for this too oft - repeated absence , they wished it might hurry him home , to remember how many were needing his presence there . The ...
... husband's camp , she trusted it would be the last ; and each time as the servants cooked and packed for this too oft - repeated absence , they wished it might hurry him home , to remember how many were needing his presence there . The ...
الصفحة 21
... husband's fair fame , and the coldness on the part of others affected only as it reflected on her noble protector . Once , after an active campaign , as she was passing through Philadelphia , she was insulted by the ladies there , who ...
... husband's fair fame , and the coldness on the part of others affected only as it reflected on her noble protector . Once , after an active campaign , as she was passing through Philadelphia , she was insulted by the ladies there , who ...
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... husband with all the great events of the Revolution . " Nor does it appear , from the documents handed down to us , that she was a very notable housewife , but rather inclined to leave the matter under her husband's control , whose ...
... husband with all the great events of the Revolution . " Nor does it appear , from the documents handed down to us , that she was a very notable housewife , but rather inclined to leave the matter under her husband's control , whose ...
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