As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me, of a pound a minute.
Reflecting on the beginning of his first European trip, Washington describes the immense relief he felt as the burdens of his long-standing responsibilities began to dissipate.
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