To Try Men's Souls - George Washington 1 - Plot & Excerpts
Tom Paine woke up, confused, not sure for a moment where he was. The room was semidark, curtains drawn. It felt stifling, confining, and chokingly hot, with heat radiating from one of Franklin’s stoves. Pulling back the covers, still not sure where he was, he was startled to discover he was naked. The room was elegant in its simplicity, candlesticks of fine pewter, sideboard of well-polished cherry wood, bed with a wool-stuffed mattress and down comforter. Memory finally came back. His army uniform, which but a few months before he had worn so proudly, was gone, burned in the fireplace of Rush’s kitchen. He remembered now the exclamations of disgust of the old woman who had picked it off the floor, holding the rags between forefinger and thumb before hurling them into the roaring fire. Michael had bathed him in the tin tub set by the fireplace, the old woman pouring gallons of warm water over him. In his exhaustion he had not even been embarrassed by her ministrations as she helped Michael to clip off his beard and shave him clean.
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