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The final days at the camp were days of happy feeling; they passed too soon, and the long-legged lawyer, bronzed and healthy looking, took his place in their canoe for the flying trip to Albany. The next day they nearly reached the Schroon and in a week they rounded the great bend, and Albany hove in view. How Van's heart did beat!
She had to support him in a last access of despair on their way to the Albany depot the morning they started to New York; but when the final details had been dealt with, the tickets bought, the trunks checked, and the handbags hung up in their car, and the future had massed itself again at a safe distance and was seven hours and two hundred miles away, his spirits began to rise and hers to sink.
At Montreal, they were told that the English called them their negroes; and, at Albany, that if they made peace with Onontio, they would sink into "perpetual infamy and slavery." Still, in spite of their perplexity, they persisted in asserting their independence of each of the rival powers, and played the one against the other, in order to strengthen their position with both.
"Those king's officers are privileged people, you know." "No man has a higher privilege to use the streets of Albany, than Mr. Cornelius Littlepage, sir, I can assure you. The young ladies often honour me with their company, and no accident has ever happened." "Do the young ladies venture to ride down this street, Mr. Ten Eyck?"
"The Bowery Theatre was burned to the ground, with all my wardrobe, all my debt upon it, and my three years' contract ending in smoke." Grievously distressed, but not disheartened, with her family dependent upon her exertions, she accepted an engagement at the principal theatre in Albany, where she remained five months, acting all the leading characters.
He marvelled also greatly at her pretended ignorance of the negotiations pending between Albany and himself, because in his last letter he had informed her of all the proceedings.* * Ibid. 965, f. 244, 27th May 1524.
This created much disappointment, among the citizens of that city, who were generally anxious to behold the "great agitator" of the north western frontier. In pursuance of this new arrangement, on the 22d of June, the party left New York, in a steam boat for Albany, where they arrived on the following day.
"At the Earl of Wimborough's little place in the north. Do you know the Earl of Wimborough? No? You must, dear lady! I will see to it." "Thank you," said Millie Splay. Harold Jupp looked eagerly at the personage, and said, "I hope Wimborough won't go jumping this winter." "Jumping!" cried Mr. Albany Todd turning indignantly. "I should think not indeed! Jumping! Why, he is seventy-three!"
They made her so for having one of her paintings on a wall was a portal out of the mundane. She also believed that she had succeeded. To her, success was measured inwardly but bolstered by things obtained with the purchasing power of money such as her recently built home within an Albany suburb, a new van, and choosing to be bedizen in some expensive jewelry that she wore repeatedly.
Arthur?" and the searching black eyes seemed compelling him to tell the truth. "No, not my sister, but a dear friend." "Where is she, Mr. Arthur? In New York?" "No, not in New York." "In Albany then?" "No, not in Albany.
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