"Jenny, your hair is gray now, and mine is white. I have been reading over again this letter from Washington."
"Read it to me while I rest, then we will talk of old times."
"Here are the resolutions of the Assembly of Pennsylvania passed on my return."
"Read them to me, brother, for I must rest longer before we talk of old times."
He read the resolutions.
"Jenny, let me uncover this. It is not vanity that makes me wish to do it now, but on account of what I wish to say."
He uncovered the portrait of the French king. The last light of the sun fell into the room and upon the frame, causing the four hundred diamonds to gleam.
"That was presented to me by the court of France."
"I never saw anything so splendid, brother. But what is the other picture under the cover?"