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There was not a stroke of work in the shop. I was so absorbed in my new vocation that I would pass my evenings in a cloak-makers' haunt, a café on Delancey Street, where I never tired talking sleeves, pockets, stitches, trimmings, and the like. There was a good deal of card-playing in the place, but somehow I never succumbed to that temptation.
"Well," said the negro, twisting a lock of wool in his fingers, "dat's a puzzler! His fust name's Voltaire, and I guess his last one's Delancey, 'cause he belongs to master, and his belongings generally take his name sich as Delancey's hosses and Delancey's niggers; but bress de Lord! I 'spec you's sleepy; good-night, young massars why didn't I tink of dis afore?"
Wraxall, and the sic volo sic jubeo of Lieutenant-Governor Delancey, is to be ascribed that mighty renown which echoed through the colonies, reverberated to Europe, and elevated a raw, inexperienced youth into a kind of second Marlborough. Parliament gave him five thousand pounds, and the King made him a baronet." On the Battle of Lake George a mass of papers will be found in the N.Y. Col.
They tried to be toward him as they had always been as though all that had happened alone in imagination.... He did not sleep; he ate but little; and he drank, some. Blake was heart-sick soul-sick. To see the man that he had known and loved as that man was! But Dr. DeLancey assured him: "It'll take a year or two. But he'll be all right in the end." And yet even Dr.
In the ensuing chapter, we purpose giving Oliver Delancey's history, as a not uninstructive episode; although we are aware that episodes are impatiently tolerated, and it is in nowise allied to the purpose of our story. But before doing so, we must detail a conversation which occurred between Delancey and Delme, at the table of the mess.
The latter was scanning the features of the former, when their eyes met. A conviction seemed to flash on Delancey, that Delme was George's brother; for the blood rushed to his cheek his colour went and came and as he turned away his head, he made a half involuntary bow.
Delancey seemed entirely to have forgotten Gulian, and leaned stiffly back in his chair, regarding the lines of clerks and the customers, who now began to flock in, without taking any notice of him. When Wilkins approached, however, and cast a meaning glance toward him, he seemed suddenly to remember Gulian, and turning round, said, bluntly: "Come here, sir."
Oliver Delancey turned deadly pale; but pride bade him scorn her, and his hand shook not, as it touched that of him, who had robbed him of a treasure, he would have died to have called his. "And you have been to D Castle, I suppose, and found your uncle had left it for Bath.
Delancey stepped back to observe the effect. "Charmante, ma chere!" she exclaimed. "Remember, love, your father and I wish you to be particularly agreeable to General Delville this evening. He is a splendid match, rich as a Jew, and of such fine family!" "He is the gentleman who was of age when papa was born, isn't he, mamma?" "Hush, child; what of that!
Delancey thought, and he said probably you did it," returned Arthur, though in the tone of one who tells what he feels assured is false. "The deuce he did!" exclaimed Clinton, filling the glasses again, and holding up his own to conceal the flush upon his face. "Well, it's too bad anyhow," said Quirk, with returning good nature.
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