Mount Vernon e le sue associazioni, storiche, biografiche e pittoriche, nessuno può rifiutare, di dare ancora più lunghi giorni a lui la cui vita onorata era così cara all'umanità, i praticanti non volevano il trono della grazia. Vicino al divano del suflferer, poggiando la testa su quel libro antico, con il quale era stata tenuta a tenere pious comunione di ogni giorno per più di mezzo secolo, era thevenerable consort, assorbito in preghiera silenziosa, E da dove si levò solo quando il gruppo di lutto si preparò a condurre l'herfrom la camera dei morti, Quella camera, sempre tenuta sacra

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Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical and pictorial . none may refuse, to give still farther length of days tohim whose time-honored life was so dear to mankind, prayerswere not wanting to the throne of grace. Close to the couch ofthe suflferer, resting her head upon that ancient book, withwhich she had been wont to hold pious communion aportion of every day for more than half a century, was thevenerable consort, absorbed in silent prayer, and from whichshe only arose when the mourning group prepared to lead herfrom the chamber of the dead, That chamber, ever held sacred by the Washington family. AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 323 and concealed from the eyes of the curious visitor, appearsnow, in form and feature, precisely as when the spirit of theFather of his Country took its departure from it. Not avestige of the furniture that was tliere at the time of Washing-tons .death, remains. The bed and bedstead on which he diedare at Arlington House, where they, too, are kept as not C)nlyprecious but sacred mementos of the great and good Wash-ington.. iStD A.Mi bl-Li^iBAD U.V AVHlCli WASHINGTON DIED. Tlie bedstead is made of mahogany, and was manufacturedin New York in 1789. It is remarkable for its size, being sixfeet square. It Avas in constant use in the bed-chamber ofGeneral and Mrs. Washington, from the time of its manufac-ture until his death. The bed and bedding remain in precisely 324 MOUNT VERNON the same condition as when Washinj^ton was borne from hischamber to his tomb. The room in which Washington died has seldom been seenby visitors at Mount Vernon. While enjoying the hospitali-ties of the late proprietor for two or three days, I was permit-ted to enter and sketch it. It was used as a jirivate chamberby the heads of the family. Empty, it presents the sameappearance it did at Washingtons death, and so I delineatedit. Two doors open from it into other chambers, and one tostairs that lead to the £:arret.

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• bookauthorlossingb
• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1850
• bookyear1859