George Robinson and his Family

[Linda Anderson]

Oddly enough, Seward was pretty calm during the assault. He was a pretty calm fellow to begin with and then there were the drugs he was given as a result of his carriage accident.

"But he saw nothing of his assailant until a hand appeared above his face, and than his thought was, "What handsome cloth that overcoat is made of!" The assassin's face then appeared, and the helpless statesman only thought, "What a handsome man!" (Payne was a fine-looking fellow.) Than came a sensation as of rain striking him smartly upon one side of his face and neck, then quickly the same upon the other side, but he felt no severe pain. This was the assassin's knife. The blood spouted. He thought, "My time has come," and, falling from the bed to the floor, fainted."

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