The Little Red FootChambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
History
The Little Red Foot
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
Yet, thank God, I have some hours of leisure.... And we have leased a
pretty cottage within our works--and our two children seem wondrous
healthy and content.... Both have yellow hair. I wish they had their
mother's lovely eyes!... But, for the rest, they have her beauty and her
health.
And shall, no doubt, inherit all the beauty of her mind and heart.
* * * * *
Comes a soldier servant where I sit writing:
"Sir: Colonel Forbes' lady; her compliments to Colonel Forbes, and
desires to be informed how soon my Colonel will be free to drink a dish
of tea with my lady?"
"Pray offer my compliments and profound respect to my lady, Billy, and
say that I shall have the honour of drinking a dish of tea with my lady
within no more than five amazing minutes!"
And so he salutes and off he goes; and I gather up the sheaf of memoirs
I have writ and lock them in my desk against another day.
And so take leave of you, with every kindness, because Penelope should
not sit waiting.
End of Project Gutenberg's The Little Red Foot, by Robert W. Chambers
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