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Greenburgh, "Graintown" bounds Yonkers on the north. Here, the present site of Dobbs Ferry, was the Indian town of Weck-quas-keck, "the place of the bark kettle." It was the unprovoked murder of an Indian here and its subsequent revenge that led to the massacre of the Indians in Jersey and the following Indian war which brought the Dutch almost to the last extremity.
The glow of pride and hope that mantled the cheek of poor Dobbs might have melted a harder heart than Gashwiler's. But the senatorial toga had invested Mr. Gashwiler with a more than Roman stoicism towards the feelings of others, and he only fell back in his chair in the pose of conscious rectitude as Dobbs hurriedly signed the paper.
Dobbs, and the four children his offspring, at length joined himself to his flock. To this audience the little ostler explained that the animals belonged to two gentlemen now reposing at the "Bugle:" one young with gold hair, the other old with grizzled locks; both in red coats; both in jack-boots; putting the house into a bustle, and calling for the best.
Conway thought that this information would produce some strong effect on Clara's proposed husband; but he did not seem to regard the matter of the picture nor the mention of Miss Van Siever's name. "She knows nothing of it?" said he. "She doesn't know yet?" "Know what?" said Conway. "She knows that her husband has lost money." "Dobbs has destroyed himself." "What!"
He will tell you. He knows it all. He has been with Maria all through. I wish, I wish it had not been so." But nevertheless she did bring herself to narrate all the details with something more of circumstance than Eames desired. She soon succeeded in making him understand that the tragedy of Hook Court was a reality, and that poor Dobbs Broughton had brought his career to an untimely end.
Will you remember that?" And she held him by the hand while he declared that he would remember it. Mrs Dobbs Broughton was no more in love with Conway Dalrymple than she was in love with King Charles on horseback at Charing Cross.
Then once more there was answering of advertisements, and another couple was spewed forth from the maw of the metropolis "Henery and Bessie Dobbs", as they subscribed themselves. "Henery" proved to be the adult stage of the East Side "gamin"; lean and cynical, full of slang and humor and the odor of cigarettes.
Do you know what your mother's maiden name was?" asked David. Owen could not tell. "Perhaps it will be in some of her books," suggested David. "They sometimes help one in such cases as this." "The books, I am afraid, were sold with the other property," said the farmer. "Then we must find out who bought them," remarked David; "perhaps Dobbs of our town did. I saw him at the sale.
Mahogany Dobbs and I happened to be below in the cabin, occupied " At the same moment Natalie laid down her knife and softly touched Launce under the table. When she thus claimed his attention the six pieces of ham were arranged as follows in her plate: Two pieces were placed opposite each other, and four pieces were ranged perpendicularly under them.
"You can call again, or you can go down to the court if you like it. But you may take this as an answer from me that the bill can't be renewed by us." At this moment the door of the room was opened, and Dobbs Broughton himself came into it. His face was not at all pleasant, and any one might have seen with half an eye that the money-market was a great deal tighter than he liked it to be.
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