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Here he had, during his school days, met the daughter of the house and, their boy-and-girl friendship culminating in an engagement shortly after his return from West Point, he and Mary Custis were married in his twenty-fifth year. Lee thus became related by marriage to Washington, and another link was formed in the strange chain of circumstances which unite their careers.
"Orders of promotion for gallantry in battle, Sam." "Is yer gwine ter write one fer my young Marse Robbie?" Taylor paused and looked up. The light of admiration overspread his face. "General Lee never promotes his sons or allows them on his staff, Sam. General Custis Lee, General Rooney Lee, and Captain Robbie won their spurs without a word from him. They won by fighting." "Yassah!
He was even full of sentiment in some matters; on more than one occasion he provided positions that enabled young friends or relatives to marry, and I shrewdly suspect that he engineered matters so that the beloved Nelly Custis obtained a good husband in the person of his nephew, Lawrence Lewis.
Phil bit his lips to keep from laughing. He saw the thing was no joke for the old man. It was a grim tragedy. "What I wants ter axe, Marse Custis, is dat you promise me faithful, ez my young master, dat when I die you come to me, get dis year o' mine outen dis salt box an' stick hit back right whar it b'long 'fore dey nail me up in de coffin.
Custis was delighted with his soldier son-in-law, whose father had said of Washington that he was "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
Jack Custis were at head-quarters, a reception was held on the anniversary of Washington's marriage, and at other times when there was anything to celebrate, the capitulation of Burgoyne, the alliance with France, the birth of a dauphin, etc., parades, balls, receptions, "feux-de-joie," or cold collations were given.
Every attempt was made to interpret his want, but in vain, till Aunt Hominy broke the silence by mumbling: "He want dat debbil's hat!" Vesta saw her husband's eyes twinkle as if he had heard the word, and it gave her a thought. She left the room, and returned with her boy, a fine young fellow, obedient to her wish. In his hand was his father's hat. "What will you do if papa leaves us, Custis?"
They s-swept on Ebenezer Johnson, the bully of thr-ree states, an' beat him to the ground, an' raced his band to their boats, an' then they th-hrew him into a little j-j-jail they had on the camp-ground, f-for safe keeping." "What did King Custis do then, Pappy Thomas?" asked Levin.
Grandfather Joseph Ball, late of Epping Forest, was to be her godfather, and Colonel Bradford Custis of Jamestown had promised to grace the christening with his imposing presence. "Well, you can come in," said Miss Bettie, with much condescension, and in all humility Lawrence did go in. Dr. Parley was quite as solemn and impressive as ever.
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