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She turned twenty and miscarried
doctor in Culpeper who, of course, suggested strong doses of opium.
Might as well stay at the Bend and fight for her place.
Conflict's end
the remains of the treasury had fallen into Basil Duke’s care.
somewhere between five thousand and five hundred thousand dollars.
Ry’s gold was still down his boots.
Buried
Burton had not quite reached thirty, and V still lacked a little of being forty—though
After imprisionment
Joseph was pathetic, diminished, ruined.
Jefferson’s lawyers began to feel a little hope that the Federals lacked the nerve to try him, fearing they would lose their case and be forced to free a vindicated Jefferson Davis on the world.
Jeff said, They lost their nerve. I didn’t lose mine.
Govmt backed down
Winnie, though, was a Howell—smart, funny, emotional, impulsive, open-minded. She and V were alike in most ways,
Daughter
malaise
Discomfort illness unease
numerous letters from friends welcoming her back to America and informing her that Jeff currently lived in Biloxi with a woman, Sara Dorsey. The widow Mrs. Dorsey.
disliked the way being in America made her mind turn back to regrets and losses. In London, most days, she could almost forget the past.
every hold she had on her own life, any sense of security, ran straight through you.
A refuge to write his story.
He lives in the cottage, and I live in the house.
attenuated.
Weakened
within ten days pneumonia took her away. She died in her new apartment,
In NYC
NEXT MORNING JAMES STANDS on the cobbles where Joe died.
Joe had been his double. Same age, same size. They’d worn the same clothes. Both the same except the final layer of skin—so not the same at all, even now.
