The half-dozen leaders and beauties of his time, with great names and of the utmost fashion, made some of the poorest marriages, and the least showy careers.
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? Well, that's one way for an obscure person to go down in history.
His scientific fame had earned him the ear of the king, who, eager to poke his old nemesis the British in the eye without the messiness of his own war, decides to secretly fund and arm the colonists.
" A hundred reasons. Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both. Perhaps he just wants to be warm for once in his life. "