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The commonwealth had driven many excellent royalists from England to Virginia, and while Hugh Price seeks to smother his anger in clouds of tobacco smoke, we will make a quotation from John Esten Cooke's "Virginia" in regard to some of them: "The character of the king's men who came over during the commonwealth period has been a subject of much discussion.
Certainly the one I spoke to showed pain at his hurt. And he did prove himself honorable, sacrificing his mind himself as he did. Ka'ruchaya, he needs help, and I think that once he learns our ways, he will be a credit to N'chark." "He lost only his memory?" "Yes, Ka'ruchaya, according to the female Marine." "And she called him your 'child, your esten." Jarna paused, thinking.
It was he that John Esten Cooke immortalized in "Surry of Eagle's Nest" and was killed at the battle of Chancellorsville. He was a native of Laurens County. The duties of picketing were the first features of our army life that looked really like war.
About this time Scott wrote a play entitled "House of Aspen" which, having been read and commended by the celebrated actress, Mrs. Esten, was put in rehearsal by Kemble for the stage. But the notion was abandoned; and discovering the play thirty years after among his papers, Scott sent it to the "Keepsake" of 1829.
Old ladies with palm-leaf fans in their tireless hands come and sit with you. They aren't brilliant old ladies, you understand. I know some whose secular library consists of the Complete Works of John Esten Cooke, Gilmore Simms's War Poems of the South, and a thumbed copy of Father Ryan.
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