"... I arose early in the morning and made him a Mint Julep, thinking it would refresh him after the restlessness of the hot night. ... Holding up the cooling beverage, I said to him: "Well, Professor, I have been entertaining you for two weeks on our simple ' fare; I could do no better, but I should have been glad had it been in my power to have treated you in the old Virginia style. Still, I cannot let you leave Virginia without taking a taste of the old lady, as she was known in ante-bellum days.""
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