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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 20: the Executive mansion-the hospitals. (search)
nd excuse for coming in on the white carpet with his splashed boots, sat down and plunged at once into army matters; the outlook was not encouraging, and the two friends talked in a circle until both were worn out. There was a little silver saucepan on the hearth, and the General stopped abruptly and said, That is a comfortable and pretty little thing, what do you use it for? And then what a delight it gave me to heat steaming hot the cafd au lait it contained and hand it to him in a little Sevres cup. When I attempted to ringr for a servant to bring luncheon, he said, This drink is exquisite, but I cannot eat; do not call a servant, it is very cozy just so; then looking at the cup, he remarked, with a twinkle in his eye, my cups in camp are thicker, but this is thinner than the coffee. Behind the playful speech I saw the intense realization he had of the coarse ways and uncomfortable concomitants of a camp, and that he missed as keenly the refinements of life to which he had been a