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Show Anecdote of -en. I.ee. The New York Cammrri -to I Ailnr-(Aer Ailnr-(Aer tells an anecdote of General Lee that occurred a lew years before the outbreak of the war. Among the mo.-l frequent visitors at the mansion on Arlington Heights were the Fairfaxes of Alexandria. Mrs. Fairfax was one uf the General's particular favorites, and the at'ractions of her society were not least among other inducetnents that tempted him from Arlington to Alexandria. One cold December inorn-itiL', inorn-itiL', while riding through the streets of that most delectable settlement, he espied Mrs. F. approaching from the direction in which he was going. A few minutes later he had di-uiounted and engaged her in conversation. The lady had armed herself again-t the in-el in-el -meney of the weather by carrying a : white mull, with which she relieved 1 the tendency of her nose to assume a too brilliant pink, by pressing it every lew minutes to that fiust-h-Ieagucied ! o'-gan. In doing tin- many hair-came j off upo'i h.-r veil, a fact which the i I ien. r..l n-.'.ir.-d. but did not p'e-r to I until h- -.iv a Ire nd turning an ndla-eent ndla-eent -..;!. r ari l coining t'i:.' vo.y. v. li wa- s' .leev.hjt l'Mtoyoii-! a- a quiz. Speaking hurriedly, in an alter--1 tw;e ; of vole.-, an 1, with an aff -.-ied air of i trepi'lation. he turn, d to .Mrs. Fairfax ; and sai l: "My dear madanie. here comes dudge 1 llrip.rmit me to J remove those hair- from your veil: they're the .mie c-.l-r a- my beard ! |