Yet his work told in the end, as it always did.

His vast and steadily growing influence made itself felt even through the dense troubles of the uneasy times.

Congress turned with energy to Europe for fresh loans.

Lafayette worked away to get an army sent over.

The two Morrises, stimulated by Washington, flung themselves into the financial difficulties, and feeble but distinct efforts toward a more concentrated and better organized administration of public affairs were made both in the States and the confederation.
But, although Washington's spirits fell, and his anxieties became wellnigh intolerable in this period of reaction which followed the French alliance, he made no public show of it, but carried on his own work with the army and in the field as usual, contending with all the difficulties, new and old, as calmly and efficiently as ever.