“Come here, Mrs. Chesnut,” said Mary Preston to-day, “they
are lifting General Hood out of his carriage, here, at your door.” Mrs. Grundy
promptly had him borne into her drawing-room, which was on the first floor. Mary
Preston and I ran down and greeted him as cheerfully and as cordially as if
nothing had happened since we saw him standing before us a year ago. How he was
waited upon! Some cut-up oranges were brought him. “How kind people are,” said
he. “Not once since I was wounded have I ever been left without fruit, hard as
it is to get now.” “The money value of friendship is easily counted now,” said
some one, “oranges are five dollars apiece.”
SOURCE: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Edited by Isabella D. Martin
and Myrta Lockett Avary, A Diary From Dixie, p. 263
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