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But a few years later she made her banter good and lived to see her husband President of the United States and with him to occupy the White House at Washington.
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Watterson recounts a story about a girl's childhood prediction that she would marry a future president.
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The Northern radicals were wont to say, “Let the South go,” the more profane among them interjecting “to hell!” The Secessionists liked to prod the New Englanders with what the South was going to do when they got to Boston.
Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
Lord!” cried the most delightful of liars, “How this world is given to lying.” Yea, and how exigency quickens invention and promotes deceit.
If you carry him off a prisoner he will be exchanged back into the fighting line, and we make nothing by it.
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