There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.

to sweeten the cares of life

If I knew what I know now before I got vamped, I'd do the same thing.

Some of us are concerned because as yet the South shows no penitence. But what exactly do we mean by this? Since down to the close of the war she never confessed any for braving it, the only penitence now left her is that which springs solely from the sense of discomfiture; and since this evidently would be a contrition hypocritical, it would be unworthy in us to demand it.