It was with great difficulty we convinced them they had made a slight mistake.

We referred them to the only acquaintances we had in the city.

They refused to consider the truth established in the mouths of two witnesses, and were not induced to give us our liberty until all convenient proof of our identity had been adduced.
To be arrested within twenty miles of home, on suspicion of being delegated from Charleston or Montgomery, was one of my most amusing experiences of the war.

The gentleman who accompanied me was a very earnest believer in coercion.

His business in Portsmouth on that occasion was to offer his services in a regiment then being formed.
A few months later he received a commission in the army, but did not obtain it through any of our temporary acquaintances at Portsmouth.
Our captors were the solid men of the city, any one of whom could have sat for the portrait of Mr.Turveydrop without the slightest alteration.