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JUST BEFORE THE WAR. I TURN in review to the years, so rife with
interest, just preceding the war. In 1855 my husband went into
business in New York City, and I, with my two eldest children,
accompanied him. It seems but yesterday that we strolled together
through the old historic precincts of New York. I used to sit in
Trinity churchyard for hours while my children played among the
tombs, scratching the moss from the letters, and I wrote or
studied, surrounded by the noise and clamor of trade, but as much
alone as if in the heart of a forest. There, during the earlier
part of our residence, I wrote my press letters and read. Later we
moved up town, in the very heart of the city, where we were living
when the events preceding the war begun to shape them selves into
such ominous foreshadowings. Our summers were spent in the city,
our winters in the South. In 1858 we had for our companion much of
the time a most beautiful Boston girl, whose father had spent all
his life in Mexico. He had come on to Boston and was carrying his
daughter to Mexico to make a trade in a silver mine, she to be a
part of the stock in trade, as wife of Don Josie Patillo, 59 years
old. The whole party was stopping at our hose. A gallant
black-haired friend of ours fell desperately in love with her, and
carried off this lily of loveliness right in the face of the
swearing old pirate, her father, and Don Josie. The excitement over
the matter in our hotel was about equal to two fires and a murder,
and I was pounced upon for helping it on.
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