Dinners, Dress, Dances, Horse-races 197 PART II CHAPTER I The Little Cloud 231 CHAPTER II The Storm 245 CHAPTER III Mary Washington in the Hour of Peril 251 CHAPTER IV Old Revolutionary Letters 262 CHAPTER V The Battle-ground 279 CHAPTER VI France in the Revolution 289 CHAPTER VII "On with the Dance, let Joy be unconfined" 304 CHAPTER VIII Lafayette and our French Allies 312 CHAPTER IX In Camp and at Mount Vernon 317 CHAPTER X Mrs. Adams at the Court of St. James 327 CHAPTER XI The First Winter at Mount Vernon 332 CHAPTER XII The President and his Last Visit to his Mother 340 CHAPTER XIII Mary Washington's Will; her Illness and Death 347 CHAPTER XIV Tributes of her Countrymen 353 ILLUSTRATIONS Supposed Portrait of Mary Washington _Frontispiece_ PAGE An Old Doll 39 Horn-book 41 Ducking-stool 44 The Old Stone House 45 William and Mary College _Facing_ 59 Old Yeocomico Church " 63 Monument at Wakefield marking the Birthplace of George Washington 75 George Washington's Apron 82 Bewdley _Facing_ 83 Pohick Church, Mount Vernon, Virginia 86 Mrs. Washington persuades George not to go to Sea 100 Kenmore House 103 The Hall at Kenmore, showing the Clock which belonged to Mary Washington 111 Nellie Custis _Facing_ 112 George Washington as Major 115 General Braddock 118 Mount Vernon _Facing_ 120 St. Peter's Church, in which George Washington was married 123 Martha Custis _Facing_ 124 Williamsburg 124 "Light-horse Harry" Lee 133 Governor Spotswood 134 Prince Murat 140 Colonel Byrd 147 Westover _Facing_ 150 The Kitchen of Mount Vernon 156 James Monroe 165 Mrs. Charles Carter 177