'A most noble sentiment, but consider how your loss would affect your poor mother, your sisters.' If I die, I do so knowing that I have helped secure our country's dearest freedoms.' That is why each time I am called to battle, I accept that 'Liberty or Death' is no empty, vainglorious slogan for me. 'But I also know that these dreams and glories exact a terrible price.' 'I do, Colonel Hamilton,' I said, pleased that he'd imbued me with such patriotic qualities instead of flattering me with compliments on my eyes or my complexion, the way most gentlemen would.

You crave liberty, and have no more patience with injustice or tyranny than I.' You understand the sacred rights of mankind, and perceive the injustice of how those rights have been taken from us. 'I heard it in your speech, and see it in your face now. 'I knew from the first that you understood, Miss Elizabeth,' he continued, lowering his voice like a conspirator. Despite the fact that the rest of my family and our guests were not ten feet from us in the drawing room, my conversation with Colonel Hamilton had made me forget them all, and turned this window corner into a place so private that we might have stood in another house entirely. Although I knew I should step back and away from him, the way I should with any man who was too forward with me, I didn't. He leaned toward me, a fierceness in his blue eyes. The following excerpt details their first encounter at her parents' home in Albany, New York in November of 1777. In the novel's opening chapter, Eliza Schuyler is a young woman of 20 when she first meets her future husband. The novel, written from Eliza's perspective, includes rich historical details of the places she visited, the people she met, and the clothes that she wore. Present alongside Alexander at pivotal moments in early American history, the story follows their courtship and marriage through the tumultuous years of the Revolutionary War and the uncertain decades of the early American Republic. A work of historical fiction, I, Eliza Hamilton, tells the story of Elizabeth 'Eliza' Hamilton, née Schuyler, the wife of Alexander Hamilton.

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