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That lady's visit was prompted partly by a curiosity to see what sort of a woman was the widow of the Plainton storekeeper who would cruise the next summer in her yacht; and partly by a feeling that to such a person a certain amount of respect was due even from a Buskirk.
Van Allen, Abraham Van Buskirk, Samuel Tilley and Lodewick Fisher were among the grantees. Samuel Tilley and Lodewick Fisher were the progenitors respectively of Sir Leonard Tilley and Hon. Charles Fisher, the one came from Long Island, N. Y., the other from New Jersey.
I'm ruined for good, for good and all, for good and all!" "Have you told Miss Buskirk?" He uttered a kind of a shriek. "No! I can't! How could I? What do you think I'm made of? And there's her father and all her relatives, and mine, and my wife my wife! If she leaves me " A fit of nausea seemed to overcome him and he struggled with it, shivering. "My God! Do you think I can face it?
Buskirk, "that it's a very strange thing for any one to build a house, such as the one you describe, in such a neighborhood, when there are so many desirable locations on the outskirts of the town. The houses on the opposite side of the street are very small, some of them even mean; if I am not mistaken there is a little shop somewhere along there!
The following reply was given under date of September 1st, 1797: "Upon reading a letter from New York signed by Henry Heiser, Lucas Van Buskirk and L. Hartman, representing that they have erected an English Lutheran Church, on account of the inability of their children to understand the German language: RESOLVED, That it is never the practice in an Evangelical Consistory to sanction any kind of schism; that if the persons who signed the letter wish to continue their children in the Lutheran Church connection in New York, they earnestly recommend them the use of the German School, and in case there is no probability of any success in this particular, they herewith declare that they do not look upon persons who are not yet communicants of a Lutheran Church as apostates in case they join an English Episcopal Church.
Buskirk made her appearance. With the exception of Mrs. Cliff's house, with which he had had so much to do, Burke had never before been inside a dwelling belonging to a very rich person, and the Buskirk mansion interested him very much.
She's thinkin' of callin' the park 'The Grove of the Incas. That sounds nice; don't you think so, madam?" "It sounds very well indeed," said Mrs. Buskirk. She had heard before of plans made by people who had suddenly come into possession of money. Burke saw that he had not yet made the impression that he desired.
"Then we'll not only get him to renew the accommodation, Sam, but we'll sell him some shirts and neckties as well. He and I clerked together in Van Buskirk & Patterson's." As a sequel to Max's visit to the Farmers' National Bank, Abe and Morris waited in vain for the return of Sam's check. "How did you know the check wasn't good, Mawruss?" Abe asked his partner a week later.
That wasn't so bad, because we shortened it to "By," but "Elijah Draco" was hopeless, so we called him "Tommy," as a rebuke to his unfeeling parents. Charles Peter Van Buskirk was a funny boy. He was as brave as a lion. You could pick him up by the ears, which were long and shall I say handy? and he never would howl. We knew that was the way to tell a good dog.
Yet notwithstanding the absolute certainty of a severe thrashing when he caught us singly, we never could refrain from calling him "Peter Van Buskirk" when we were together. Why is it that parents are so thoughtless about the naming of their children? I knew a boy once named Elijah Draco and there was another lad of my acquaintance who struggled under the name of Lord Byron.
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