CHAPTER VII.

My Return to New York--Dinner to a well-known Millionaire--Visit of Lord

Frederick Cavendish, Hon. E. Ashley, and G. W. des Voeux to the United

States--I Entertain them at my Southern Home--My Father’s Old Friends

resent my Manner of Entertaining--Her Majesty’s Consul

disgruntled--Cedar Wash-tubs and Hot Sheets for my English

Guests--Shooting Snipe over the Rice Lands--Scouring the Country for

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