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Although this man employed his great talents in a field, that of railroad transportation, which lies outside the scope of the present volume, yet in this comprehensive view I may take Cornelius Vanderbilt as the symbol that links the old industrial era with the new.
The robbing white traders could not flourish in the light. Therefore they fought the light. He would prove it to the good people of Fitu-Iva, and he would prove it out of the mouths of his enemies. It was a well-known fact that all highly civilized countries had paper-money systems. He would ask Ieremia if this was not so. Ieremia did not answer. "You see," Cornelius went on, "he makes no answer.
There is a story that he had a small golden image of Apollo from Delphi, which he was always wont in battle to carry about him in his bosom, and that he then kissed it with these words, "O Apollo Pythius, who in so many battles hast raised to honor and greatness the Fortunate Cornelius Sylla, wilt thou now cast him down, bringing him before the gate of his country, to perish shamefully with his fellow-citizens?"
Gryphus, growing more and more exasperated by the calm and sententious tone of Cornelius, brandished his cudgel, but at the moment when he raised it Cornelius rushed at him, snatched it from his hands, and put it under his own arm. Gryphus fairly bellowed with rage. "Hush, hush, my good man," said Cornelius, "don't do anything to lose your place." "Ah, you sorcerer!
For heaven's sake, don't think of me, but fly from this place, Take care, it bears ill luck to the De Witts!" "Halloa!" cried the jailer, recovering his senses, "who is talking of those rogues, those wretches, those villains, the De Witts?" "Don't be angry, my good man," said Cornelius, with his good-tempered smile, "the worst thing for a fracture is excitement, by which the blood is heated."
Should he tell her the truth, that the beautiful black-and-white print, with all its exquisite softness, scarcely did justice to the delicate mobile face? "I wanted you and Miss Lucy to have one," she went on, "and Colonel Gresham, and David, and High Price, and Leonora, and Cornelius for he was so good to get my locket back.
But the mulatto showed such indignant grief and offered such large promises, the child, of course, siding with the teamster, and after all, they could reach Widewood so soon after nightfall, that the Judge sent them. From Widewood, Cornelius, alone, was to turn promptly back "Well, o' co'se, sah! Ain't I always promp'?"
At length the judge was seated, and in a few minutes Cornelius Dalton was put to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Bartholomew Sullivan, by striking him on the head with a walking-stick, in the corner of a field, near a place called the Grey Stone, &c, &c, situate and being in the barony of, &c, &c.
Herbert gladly accepted the invitation. He was tired of wandering about the great city, not knowing where to lay his head; accordingly he joined his genteel cousin, and they walked toward Bleecker Street. "Have you got any money?" queried Cornelius, cautiously. "Not much. If I don't find something to do in a week, I must go back to the country." "A week's a short time to find a place. But hold on!
"No, it is not my father, I am quite sure, but " "But?" "But it might be Mynheer Jacob." Rosa rushed toward the staircase, and a door was really heard rapidly to close before the young damsel had got down the first ten steps. Cornelius was very uneasy about it, but it was after all only a prelude to greater anxieties. The flowing day passed without any remarkable incident.
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