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A people who had for centuries insisted not only on its rights but on

its privileges was now giving as freely as ever it had de hoarded all those years, it had but been hoarding

against the day of payave--in money, in

effort, in life And without pretext

So the Traverses, having given up all that hadonly, and no coh atea as usual, and valiantly

speaking of s the future, but never, in

the bitterestcomplaint or protest

Would America, she wondered, if her hour cas It was "stand the gaff" Would Ae was Ae of the

body rather than of the soul--physical courage, not le and the papers were filled, as

were the British and the French, with long casualty lists, each name a

knife thrust so, it was Sara Lee's turn to stand the gaff There

was another letter, a curiously incoherent one fro that the society had done, and hoped that Sara Lee