Heah am yer suppah chile; now eat it an den go to sleep, honey, for it am all ober." Consequently next morning at early daylight the children were mounted on horses, the chief mode of travel in Virginia at that time, and, accompanied by their aunt's husband and two negro slaves, they set off on the long journey.

Mrs.Price kissed them a tearful adieu and wept as if her heart would break.

This unfortunate woman was more weak than bad.
By one who has not made a study of the human heart and is incapable of an analysis of woman, Mrs.Price will not be understood.

There are many women like her, and, disagreeable as the type may seem, it exists, and the artist who is true to nature must paint nature as he finds it.
Three years were passed by Robert and his sister at the home of their relative, and in those three years Robert imbibed a spirit of republicanism which at that time was rapidly growing in Virginia.

As Robert's uncles were republicans, he learned the doctrine from them.