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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 34: (search)
had to obtain a pension, except according to the rules; and as a consular officer I was familiar with the methods. I endeavored to explain this, but the beneficent stranger did not care for rules, she wanted the interposition of the ex-President; the deus ex machine. Finally, however, she learned just how much or how little General Grant could do in the matter, and turned to take her leave. As she rose she said she had had the pleasure of knowing General Grant's daughter in England; young Sartoris, who had married Nellie Grant, was her nephew. Then I knew where I had seen the low forehead and stately air and heard the deep rich tones; for this was Fanny Kemble. The connections exchanged a few further remarks, and the dramatic personage made another courtesy such as Catharine of Arragon performed to Henry VIII., put up her black silk parasol again, and sailed away. At Heidelberg Grant met Wagner. The King of Music came to call on the man whose deeds were greater than any the oth
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 49: (search)
d made no decision. Now he came to a conclusion, and in the first week in March the agreement was signed with his publishers, Messrs. C. L. Webster & Co. At the same time the family thought they could no longer withhold from his daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, the knowledge of her father's condition. She was in England, and they had of course notified her of his illness, but, in the hope of amelioration or respite, had deferred the announcement of its critical character. But at last they wrote aossible. They were a medicine to his drooping spirit, an anodyne to the excited, trembling heart, a stimulant at the moment when the pulse was failing and the breath fluttering. Very early in April I was obliged to give up my room; after Mrs. Sartoris arrived, there was no other where the faithful medical attendants could rest in the intervals of their watchings. But I still spent my days at the house, and often remained for the night, lying where I could, or snatching sleep in a chair, w
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 50: (search)
5th, 1874. My dear General,—Your letter stating that Mr. Sartoris & Nellie had been at your house in London was received hers. We expect them to spend the winter with us, & as Mr. Sartoris & Nellie will be here in January, we will have I hope, city through which he passed. After this he paid a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris, the parents of his daughter's husband, whMrs. Sartoris, the parents of his daughter's husband, who had a country house near Southampton. I had been absent so much from my consular post that, although this was with the sife, in my favor. Warsash House was the residence of Mr. Sartoris. Warsash House, Titchfield, Hants, Oct. 3d 1877aring that she may not be able to come, but has written Mr. Sartoris, who is in Ireland, for his opinion. If she does not ceave here for there—before the second of JanY. Nellie & Mr. Sartoris come here this week to remain with us until our departue amount you may have to pay. The box is marked: Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris; care General A. Badeau; U. S. Consul-General, L