Excerpt from With Lafayette in America

Not many years since I knew familiarly an old lady nearing her centenary who had seen and been blessed by Lafayette. In her quavering voice she would repeat the lines she and her schoolmates had recited on the day when the distinguished Frenchman, in his sixty-seventh year, had driven through her New Jersey village. Her eyes would kindle as she related the particulars of his reception, the triumphal arch which the village people had quickly reared when it was known he would come their way, the flowers the children plucked to throw in his path, the excitement of the minister who was chosen to address him.

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