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Fitzhugh's is turning out well, and he hopes to gather a fair crop. Robert came up last Wednesday with his friend Mr. Dallam, and went down Thursday. He was very well. Custis arrived Saturday week. Mr. Kepler is here and will preach at St. Peter's this morning. I hope to attend. Mr. Kepler says his health is much improved. Fitzhugh doses him with cholagogue. Good-bye. Affectionately yours,
Then he married Martha Custis, richest widow in the Virginia colony; and, to have a home suitable for her, he had the roof raised and the house made full two stories. Shortly before the outbreak of the American Revolution, he planned two wings. The first was that at the south end with library on the ground floor and master bedroom for Colonel and Mrs. Washington on the second.
I've come yer, Judge, to lie up in the kitchen, an' sleep warm over Sunday, for the cops threaten to take me, if they catch me before midnight." "I suppose you know, Johnson, that I am a magistrate, and the proper harborage I give to breakers of the peace is the jail." "I'm not afraid of that limbo, Judge Custis, when I come to you.
He looks after my property as no other man could." "Then," said Mrs. Custis, emphatically, "he was one man out of a thousand." "That's the kind of man you married, Vesta," spoke up Mrs. Dennis. "Her husband," said Mrs. Custis, "looked after her father's property, I am sure, for he got it all." "And returned it all," exclaimed Vesta. Mrs.
The sons were General G.W. Custis Lee, aide-de-camp to President Davis subsequently commander of infantry in the field, and now president of Washington and Lee College, an officer of such ability and of character so eminent that President Davis regarded him as a fit successor of his illustrious father in command of the Army of Northern Virginia General W.H.F. Lee, a prominent and able commander of cavalry, and Captain Robert E. Lee, an efficient member of the cavalry-staff.
Then, with an instant's greater torrent of tears, a sense of rest and man's respect fell upon Virgie's soul, and she paid no heed to time or dangers till the carriage came to a stop in the deep forest sands several miles east of Princess Anne. "William," said Rhoda Holland, "what air we to do to save Virgie? Uncle Meshach's gone. Jedge Custis is nobody knows whar, now.
Owing to his absence from home, his affairs fell into great disorder from which they were extricated by a fortunate stroke. This stroke consisted in his marriage to Martha Custis, relict of the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. The story of his wooing the young widow has been often told with many variations and fanciful embellishments, but of a few facts we are certain.
He was never idle, and what he had to do he performed with care and precision. Mr. Custis, my grandfather, had made him executor of his will, wherein it was directed that all the slaves belonging to the estate should be set free after the expiration of so many years.
"If the chief's account is correct, it must be an interesting region to visit," said Sergeant Custis. "For my own part, I hope we shall have the chance of getting there." While travelling on we kept in compact order, looking out, as usual, for the approach of foes; but happily none appeared. Crossing the road which led to the pass, we continued onwards until nightfall.
He fancied that Becky was discussing kisses in the abstract. It never occurred to him that the problem was personal. "Yes," he said, "I have. What about it?" "Did you ask her to marry you?" "No." "Why not?" He pulled Nellie Custis' ears. "One of them wasn't a nice sort of girl not the kind that I should have cared to introduce to you." "Yet you cared to kiss her?" Randy flushed faintly.
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