I'd witnessed his reaction the prior night.
Betsy and I were more shocked at the buried animosity that the other three must have witnessed over the past few weeks.
He felt in his own person the sufferings and death he had witnessed on the battlefield.
What would Giddon do if he found out she had witnessed his connection?
A powerful stimulus was thus given to the growth of cotton in all directions; a degree of activity and enterprise never witnessed before was seen in India, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Africa, the West Indies, Queensland, New South Wales, Peru, Brazil, and in short wherever cotton could be produced; and there seemed no room to doubt that in a short time there would be abundant supplies independently of America.
