It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
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And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
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I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
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Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.
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