Pitt Ohio Quotes

I— I am no’ deservin’ of such kindness. I am tainted, do you no’ see that?” “All I see, Bethie, is the woman I—” Love. “— care deeply about and wish to protect.” The word had come to him so naturally, had slipped onto his tongue as if he’d meant it. And to his astonishment, Nicholas realized he did. He loved her. He was in love with Bethie Stewart.

twenty miles to the point, at McKeesport, where the Youghiogheny merged with the larger, muddy yellow Monongahela. From there it was another twenty miles to where, at Pittsburgh, the Monongahela joined the clearer, faster-flowing Allegheny to form the Ohio. (Even three miles below the junction the waters of the Allegheny were to be distinguished from those of the Monongahela.) Pittsburgh at the time, a crude frontier settlement of no more than 150 log cabins and houses, was described as “an irregular poor built place” alongside old Fort Pitt inhabited by “a lazy set of beings” and where “money affairs” were at a low ebb. Its chief export was whiskey. But with its key location at the headwaters of the Ohio, Pittsburgh was the Gateway to the West and almost