Capitolo 68
you/he/she had cast away to a new subject.
"Which would it rather be, God Dunbeg? an Earl or George
Washington?"
"George Washington, certainly" it was the Earl it is nevertheless polite
rather puzzled replica.
"Really?" she asked with a languid affectation of surprise; "it is
fearfully kind of You to say this way, but you cannot clearly intend him/it.
"Indeed I intend him."
"Is it possible? I would not have had to ever think him."
"Because not, Miss you Challenge?"
"You don't have the air to desire to be George Washington."
"Can I ask again, because not?"
"Certainly. Did he/she ever see George Washington?"
"Clearly not. He died fifty years before I was born."
"I thought of yes. You see you he/she doesn't know him/it. Now, desire you give us
an idea of that that you imagine General Washington to have looked
as?"
Dunbeg gave accordingly a flattering description of General
Washington, combined of the portrait of Stuart and Greenough
statue of Olympic Jove with the characteristics of Washington, in the Capitol
To straight angle. The Girl to Give didn't listen with an expression of the superiority
unmlxed with patience, and then she illuminated him as it follows:
"Everybody that you are saying is perfect stuff--you excuse the vulgarity of
the expression. When I am a Countess I will correct my language.
Truth is that General Washington it was a raw-boned country
grower, very hard-dalle features, very awkward, very illiterate and a lot
dull; very bad tempered, very profane, and generally tipsy later
supper."
"You shock me, the Girl to Give!" Exclaimed Dunbeg.
"Oh! I know all General Washington. My grandfather knew
him intimately, and Vernon was often for awry weeks
together. You don't have to believe what you read, and not a word of
what they will say the Mr. Carrington.
He is a Virginian and nobody will tell him end of excellent histories and not a
syllable of the truth in one of them. We am patriotic entirely around
Washington and it likes to hide his/her guilts. If I were rather sure You
it would never repeat him/it, I would not tell him this. Truth is that