"I think this must have been a guest chamber," said Dick, "but for us
coming from the rain and mud it's a real palace."
"Then it's fulfilling its true function," said Warner, "because it has
guests now. What a strange household! Did you ever see such a peppery
pair as that swearing old colonel and his acid daughter?"
"I don't know that I blame them. I think, sometimes, George, that
you New Englanders are the most selfish of people. You're too truly
righteous. You're always denouncing the faults of others, but you never
see any of your own. Away back in the Revolution when Boston called,
the Southern provinces came to her help, but Boston and New England have
spent a large part of their time since then denouncing the South."
"What's struck you, Dick? Are you weakening in the good cause?"
"Not for a moment. But suppose Mississippi troops walked into your own
father's house in Vermont, and, as conquerors, demanded food and shelter!
Would you rejoice over them, and ask them why they hadn't come sooner?"
"I suppose not, Dick. But, stop it, and come back to your normal
temperature.
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