. George Washington . Krieg getragene Generalität wie ein Anruf von den Hesperides. Männer seiner Ironnatur, und seiner Fähigkeit zur Arbeit und Freude daran, donot, natürlich, wirklich Freude an Müßiggang. Sie denken vielleicht, dass sie sich nach Müßiggang sehnen, aber in Wirklichkeit sehnen sie sich nach der Kraft des Vorgehens. Es dauerte vergleichsweise wenig Aufwand für Washingtonto fallen in seine alte Lebensweise am Mount Vernon, al-obwohl es auch, viel wurde geändert. Das alte Gebäude ist außer Reparatur geraten. Es gab neue Experimente, die versucht werden sollten, und der allgemeine Zweck, den Mount Vernon zu einem Musterplatz in diesem Teil des Landes zu machen. Whit

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. George Washington . war-worn Generallike a call from the Hesperides. Men of his ironnature, and of his capacity for work and joy in it, donot, of course, really delight in idleness. They maythink that they crave idleness, but in reality theycrave the power of going on. It took comparatively little effort for Washingtonto fall into his old way of life at Mount Vernon, al-though there, too, much was changed. Old buildingshad fallen out of repair. There were new experimentsto be tried, and the general purpose to be carried outof making Mount Vernon a model place in that partof the country. Whether he would or not, he wassought for almost daily by persons who came fromall parts of the United States, and from overseas.Hospitality being not merely a duty, but a passionwith him, he gladly received the strangers andlearned much from them. From their accounts oftheir interviews we see that, although he was reallythe most natural of men, some of them treated himas if he were some strange creature — a holy white. zo z > HZ O WASHINGTON RETURNS TO PEACE 141 elephant of Siam, or the Grand Lama of Tibet. Agehad brought its own deductions and reservations. Itdoes not appear that parties rode to hounds afterthe fox any more at Mount Vernon. And then/ there were the irreparable gaps that could not befilled. At Belvoir, where his neighbors the Fair-faxes, friends of a lifetime, used to live, they livedno more. One of them, more than ninety years old, had turned his face to the wall on hearing of thesurrender at Yorktown. Another had gone back toEngland to live out his life there, true to his Toryconvictions. Washington had sincerely believed, no doubt, thathe was to spend the rest of his life in dignified leisure, and especially that he would mix no more in politicalor public worries; but he soon found that he haddeceived himself. The army, until it officially dis-banded at the end of 1783, caused him constantanxiety interspersed with fits of indignation overthe indifference and

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