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''“Never mind arguing about it now,” my father interrupted me. “Wait till you see Rest-and-be-thankful; then you’ll understand. And take the look off your face! They’re not supposed to rattle chains or flap about wailing in misty sheets. All they do is come around sometimes when they happen to feel like it.”'' }}

 

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Dick - an officer in the Continental army - naturally wears blue, as does his love interest Eleanor; Peaceable - an officer in the British army - wears red, as does his love interest Barbara.

* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Peaceable finds out very quickly that Barbara is anything ''but'' this.

* [[Embarrassing First Name]]: Considering Peaceable's not the fondest of his own first name in the 18th century, it stands to reason that the embarrassment is compounded by the time we hit the contemporary sections and find that {{spoiler|Pat Thorne}} has inherited the aforementioned first name.

* [[Girl of My Dreams]]: after having a series of nitwits pushed on him by his uncle, Peaceable is rather disdainful towards women in general; he is somewhat startled to find that Barbara subverts all his expectations of her ''utterly''.