I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.
“In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.”
“When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.”