And still, the legend remains that he was bashful.
From our earliest glimpses of him, Washington appears as a youth very particular as to his dress.

He knew how to rough it as the extracts of his personal journals which I have quoted show, and this passage confirms: I seem to be in a place where no real satisfaction is to be had.
Since you received my letter in October last, I have not sleep'd above three or four nights in a bed, but, after walking a good deal all the day, I lay down before the fire upon a little hay, straw, fodder, or bearskin, which ever is to be had, with man, wife, and children, like a parcel of dogs and cats, and happy is he who gets the berth nearest the fire.

There's nothing would make it pass off tolerably but a good reward.

A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.

The coldness of the weather will not allow of my making a long stay, as the lodging is rather too cold for this time of year.