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Hastings's surprise when she suggested that she was ready for her lunch, and proceeded to unpack her stores. "This is the first course, I suppose," she said, as she produced two neat white-paper packages, each with the name of the contents written on it. "This one contains potted meat sandwiches, and these are chicken. They look very nice, too.
Famine, disease, and death swept the towns. The inhabitants grew savage in their craving for bread. They starved. They sat without light. They froze. They pulled down the hedges and wooden buildings to warm their dying hearths and their offices. The red-blood life deserted the towns; indeed it had never really existed in them; and there came a white-paper life that was death.
Hamilton, aged thirty-two, gave up his law practise, which was yielding him ten thousand a year, to accept this office which paid three thousand five hundred. Before the British cannon, Washington did not lose heart, but to face the angry mob of creditors waving white-paper claims made him quake; but with Hamilton's presence his courage came back.
There are six officers stationed in the farmhouse, composing General H 's staff. And, as things turned out, we did not require the white-paper sandwiches, for we were at once invited to luncheon. "Not a very elaborate luncheon," said General H , "but it will give us a great deal of pleasure to share it." While the extra places were being laid we went to the brow of the hill.
With some difficulty we got the lid open, and took out one or two folds of paper. Then there was a lot of soft shavings, such as brittle toys and gimcracks are often packed in, and among the shavings was a small neatly-folded white-paper parcel. And inside the parcel was a cinder. We certainly looked very foolish as we stood before our present.
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