William Hamilton Maxwell
William Hamilton Maxwell

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

William Hamilton Maxwell
William Hamilton Maxwell

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

William Hamilton Maxwell
William Hamilton Maxwell

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

William Hamilton Maxwell
William Hamilton Maxwell

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

William Hamilton Maxwell
William Hamilton Maxwell

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.