(Eat Not To Dullness)
After a breakfast of eggs and toast
(Avoid Trifling Conversation)
Ben slaps his mistress across the face, knuckle to cheek, and demands
(Let All Your Things Have Their Places)
To know where she and Jefferson were during the last congressional session
(Resolve to Perform What You Ought)
While he was considering a revolt against the home of his father
(Waste Nothing)
He threw the breakfast plate at her and asked her again, reserved with rage
(Cut Off All Unnecessary Action)
She says nothing.
(If You Speak, Speak Accordingly)
"Deborah, Thomas is not to be trusted. Are you?"
(Wrong None By Doing Injuries)
Ben takes her silence in stride. She removes the shattered plate and egg remnants.
(Avoid Extremes)
Ben leaves the kitchen and the weeping woman without speaking again
(Tolerate No Uncleanliness In Body or Habitation)
His large frame blocks the sunlight falling on his Philadelphia hardwood floor
(Be Not Disturbed At Trifles)
Rocking in a chair, he tastes the colonies' butter on the back of his tongue
(Rarely Use Venery But For Health Or Offspring)
He returns to the kitchen to console his mistress
(Imitate Jesus and Socrates)
Before meeting with Jefferson at Independence Hall.
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