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of the firm with whom he was studying.
The lawyer had business in England and took Ulysses to do the copying, but when they arrived he was worse off than Mrs. Borie.
The son of the President and ‘the gentleman who accompanied him’ were invited everywhere.
When they drove out ‘Mr. Grant’ was put on the front seat, and ‘the gentleman’ behind; when they were announced at dinners and parties in English fashion, it was Mr. Grant who preceded; and their real relations were reversed in the most ridiculous manner.
I was having a holiday at the time, and they took my house off my hands for a month or two.
They went about a great deal in London, I was told, and were both more than popular, and ‘the gentleman who accompanied Mr. Grant’ made the most of his opportunities.
But all this passed away.
The children of General Grant had their day. Then came sorrow and humiliation.
Every one knows that the beloved chief went into business and was wronged; that he and his lost their all; that the sense of his disgrace rather than the loss of fortune, struck to the soul the man who had been honored by the world.
The long and terrible story has been told.
The nation is familiar with it. And then in the sorrow that was worse than a cancer, General Grant clung to his family.
Then I—and I believe even they—first fully discovered how dear they were to him. His love for his wife remained what it had always been; all that the love of a husband could be for the partner of his greatness and his poverty, his joys and his griefs, during more than thirty years; a beautiful spectacle of domestic affection in as great and striking vicissitudes as earth can ever know.
But the passion for his children was now developed into something exceptional and almost unreasoning.
He admired the talent of his sons as if it had been extraordinary; he declared Ulysses had a marvelous business capacity; that Colonel Grant was fit to command armies; that Jesse was a mathematical genius.
All the world knows
S. S. Scranton and Co., Hartford, 1887.
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