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His life as a gentleman farmer was an ideal one, and it is said that as a result of experimentation, Jefferson domesticated nearly every tree and shrub, native and foreign, that was able to stand the Virginia winters. Jefferson's commanding ability, however, speedily thrust him into the stirring incidents that opened the Revolution.
The flippant tone of all this disheartened Thomas Jefferson's listener, and a silence succeeded which lasted until the train had stormed around the nose of Lebanon and the whistle was blowing for Gordonia. Then Tom said: "I didn't mean to hurt you; but now you see why I can't go back and begin all over again." And she nodded assent.
And, moreover, he feared that his plain, democratic manners and principles which he scorned to alter for anyone would be but ill-suited to the courtly life of Versailles. For it must be owned that Mr. Jefferson's democracy, like his learning, was a trifle ostentatious, and became more so as he grew older.
Marshall, probably, felt exasperated by Jefferson's virulence against these final appointments made by John Adams, while Marshall was Secretary of State, and for which he may have felt himself, in part, responsible. Possibly, even, he may have taken some of Jefferson's strictures as aimed at himself. At all events he went to extreme lengths in retaliation.
In the fifth volume of Marshall, page 164, will be found an extract of Washington's vindication of his conduct, and a most satisfactory one, which shows the proper character of Mr. Jefferson's 'Anas. These complaints related, in particular, to the manner of receiving such visitors as came from respect or from curiosity, of which there were multitudes.
All he knew was that the fellow's attitude was becoming unbearably insolent and he stepped forward with a gleam in his eye that might have startled the man had he not been so busy shaking his fist at Shirley. But she saw Jefferson's movement and laid her hand on his arm. "No, no, Mr. Ryder no scandal, please. Look, people are beginning to come up! Leave him to me. I know how to manage him."
Here had the Autocrat reared a monument to our great Democrat, gaining praise for Jefferson long after his enemies and their factious laughter had died out forever. But take what the main body of cultured Americans have thought Jefferson's chronic whimsey, his belief that the heart of England must be ever set against all our liberty and prosperity.
At one, while he was at home during the recess for dinner, he found the mercury at seventy-six. At nine in the evening, when the great deed had been done, the instrument indicated seventy-three and a half degrees. From another entry of Mr. Jefferson's we learn that he paid for a new thermometer on that day.
He would have said, in his wild way, that it was all Tom Jefferson's doing, sir. Tom Jefferson abolished primogeniture in Virginia, and thus, as John Randolph believed, destroyed the old families, the life and glory of the. State.
Answering Jefferson's question she said: "I had a letter from father last week. Everything was going on at home as when I left. Father says he misses me sadly, and that mother is ailing as usual." She smiled, and Jefferson smiled too. They both knew by experience that nothing really serious ailed Mrs.
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