He, too, would never be the same man again.
In truth, the beginning Teaford menage lay under the most unfavourable portents.

Things looked dark for it.
Yet despite the forebodings of Wilbur and Winona, it began to be suspected, even by them, that the war would wear itself out, as old Doctor Purdy said, by first intention.

And in spite of affecting individual dramas they began to feel that it must wear itself out with no help from them.

It seemed to have settled into a quarrel among foreign nations with which we could rightfully have no concern.

Winona learned, too, that her picture of the nurse on a battlefield administering cordial to wounded combatants from the small keg at her waist was based upon an ancient and doubtless always fanciful print.
Wilbur, too, gathered from the newspapers that, though he might die upon a battlefield, there was little chance that a French general would be commissioned to repeat his last words to Mrs.Lyman Teaford of Newbern Center.