...with a paper in his hand, so resembled a clergyman, that I fully expected him to say, Warren, will you have this sword to be your lawful, wedded wife? But instead, he only read how the citizens of Cold Spring , desirous of showing their appreciation of the patriotism, etc., had procured this sword, etc., in token of, etc., etc. To which the General, looking, if possible, still more as if in the agonies of ...