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" you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs these ten minutes. I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." I replied, without petulancy, but with decision, " I am not conscious of it, sir ; but since you have thought it necessary to tell... "
Life of George Washington - Page 234
by Washington Irving - 1869
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The Life of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 1

John Church Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1840 - 438 pages
...(said he,) you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs these ten minutes ; — I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." I replied, without...separated. I sincerely believe my absence, which gave BO much umbrage, did not last two minutes. In less than an hour after, Tilghman came to me in the General's...
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The Cincinnati Miscellany, Or, Antiquities of the West, and Pioneer History ...

Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1845 - 288 pages
...(said he,) you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs, these ten minutes: — I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." I replied without...I am not conscious of it, sir, but since yo.u have though it necessary to tell me so, we part." "Very well sir, (said he,) if it be your choice," or something...
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The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789

Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1850 - 514 pages
...Hamilton," said he, "you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs these ten minutes. I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." I replied, without...separated. I sincerely believe my absence, which gave BO much umbrage, did not last two minutes. In less than an hour after, Tilghman came to me in the General's...
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The Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton

Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1857 - 426 pages
...waiting for you these ten minutes. I must tell you, air, you treat me with disrespect." Hamilton replied: "I am not conscious of it, sir; but since you have...necessary to tell me so, we part." " Very well, sir," responded "Washington, "if it be your choice." Such was the cause of this unfortunate difficulty. The...
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Memoirs of Washington

Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...with disrespeet.' I replied, without petulancy, ' I am not conscious of it, sir, but since yon hove thought it necess'ary to tell me so, we part.' ' Very...said he, ' if it be your choice,' or something to that effeet, and we separated. I sincerely believe my absence, which gave so much umbrage, did not...
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The Life and Times of Aaron Burr: Lieutenant-colonel in the Army ..., Volume 188

James Parton - New York (State) - 1858 - 728 pages
...•aid he, 'you have kept me waiting at tho head of the stairs these ten minutes ; I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect.' I replied, without...it, sir, but since you have thought it necessary to tel1 me so, we part.' ' Very well, sir,' said he, 'if it be your choice,' or something^ to that effect,...
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The Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton

Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1858 - 438 pages
...waiting for you these ten minutes. I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." Hamilton replied: "I am not conscious of it, sir; but since you have...it necessary to tell me so, we part." " Very well, Bir,"-responded "Washington, "if it be your choice." Such was the cause of this unfortunate difficulty....
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 2

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1858 - 634 pages
...as " savoring too much of petulance." He states, " I replied without petulancy, but with an air of decision, ' I am not conscious of it, sir, but since...have thought it necessary to tell me so, we part.' " His decision, he remarks, "was not the effect of resentment, it was the deliberate result of maxims...
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History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced ..., Volume 2

John Church Hamilton - United States - 1858 - 636 pages
...as " savoring too much of petulance." He states, " I replied without petulancy, but with an air of decision, ' I am not conscious of it, sir, but since you have thought it necessary to tell me so, wo part." " His decision, he remarks, " was not the effect of resentment, it was the deliberate result...
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Life of George Washington: Written for Children

E. Cecil - Presidents - 1859 - 292 pages
...stairs these ten minutes. I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." Hamilton replied, " I am not conscious of it, sir ; but, since you have...necessary to tell me so, we part." "Very well, sir," answered the General, " if it be your choice," or words to that effect. In less than an hour, Washington...
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