. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . r davis—gen. n. p. banks— GEN. R. C. SCHENCK (POKER BOB)—SPEAKER SCHUYLER COLFAX SUPREME COURT JUSTICES^ CHASE, MILLER, DAVIS, AND CLIFFORD MR. PHILIps SELECT STAG PARTIES MAJOR DITTO ENGLISH BOATSWAINS SONG THE NEGRO mILLION-o-AIRS CLUB, THEIR FUNNY SONGS POEMS, fRIEND ALWAYS, tHE PER-FECT WOMAN, the STAR-SPANGLED BANNER/ ETC. T IS urgently suggested by some of my ladyfriends that I give in these pages accountsof the social swim in the Capital during miysojovirn there in war days. To this I accedesomewhat reluctantly, as I have n
. Civil War echoes : character sketches and state secrets . r davis—gen. n. p. banks— GEN. R. C. SCHENCK (POKER BOB)—SPEAKER SCHUYLER COLFAX SUPREME COURT JUSTICES^ CHASE, MILLER, DAVIS, AND CLIFFORD MR. PHILIps SELECT STAG PARTIES MAJOR DITTO ENGLISH BOATSWAINS SONG THE NEGRO mILLION-o-AIRS CLUB, THEIR FUNNY SONGS POEMS, fRIEND ALWAYS, tHE PER-FECT WOMAN, the STAR-SPANGLED BANNER/ ETC. T IS urgently suggested by some of my ladyfriends that I give in these pages accountsof the social swim in the Capital during miysojovirn there in war days. To this I accedesomewhat reluctantly, as I have never beenmuch of either a society or a club man. Ihad been living in Washington but a short time and wasattending closely to keeping up with my class at college bypursuing my studies under my fathers tutorship, when hesuddenly seemed to realize the social advantages for me tobe derived from entering the ranks of a society as cosmo-politan as that of Washington—advantages educational incharacter and as manifold almost as continental travel. He, ii8. Sketches and State Secrets therefore, strongly urged me to accept all invitations tolevees and receptions received. I was exceedingly diffident asa lad, and the misfortune was not the less as a young rarely sensitive temperament was enhanced by a lack ofwhat is popularly termed brass or gall. I invariablyshrank from prominence or publicity, and used to thinkwhen a boy it was chiefly on account of this excessive,shrinking bashfulness that I was selected about every twoweeks by the teacher of the academy which I attended todeliver a speech, which was mostly a rhetorical recitationof some memorized phillipic of the great Irish orators. Anaturally chivalric instinct toward the gentler sex had beencarefully developed and fostered by my mother. As a sus-ceptible and romantic school boy I early selected andremained steadfastly true to a fair, blue-eyed playmate, whoalmost outranked my mother in affectionate regard. A little bi
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