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Grymes was secured as counsel in their cause; but on some account not now remembered by survivors scarce a week had passed before they were being sold as redemptioners. At least many were, including Daniel Müller and his children. Then the dispersion began.
Of slaves she had ten, and housed most of them in the tall narrow wing that we have already noticed. We need not recount again the state of society about her at that time. The description of it given by the young German duke whom we quoted without date in the story of "Salome Muller" belongs exactly to this period. Grymes stood at the top and front of things.
He had agreed to pay Daniel Webster for assistance rendered; but Mr. Webster, some years after, informed me that he had never received a cent, and I am sure he never did, after that. Grymes was well aware, if the city fathers got their hands upon the money, it would be years before he got this amount, if ever.
The action said: "Let the child alone; maybe when the ice is once broken she'll see people, and not be so shy and strange!" "Mr. Lee," said Evelyn sweetly, "I have dropped my glove, perhaps in the summer-house on the terrace. If you will be so good? Mr. Grymes, will you desire Mr. Stagg yonder to shortly visit me at my lodging? I wish to bespeak a play, and would confer with him on the matter."
That was the last Milliadon ever heard of his two thousand dollars. Laurent Milliadon and the millionaire John McDonough were litigious in their characters; and their names occur in the report of the Supreme Court decisions more frequently than those of any ten other men in the State. Grymes was the attorney for both of them for many years.
While still a school-boy, Washington was one day caught "romping with one of the largest girls," and very quickly more serious likings followed. Who this "Low Land Beauty" was has been the source of much speculation, but the question is still unsolved, every suggested damsel Lucy Grymes, Mary Bland, Betsy Fauntleroy, et al. being either impossible or the evidence wholly inadequate.
Upon one occasion, when there was a United States senator to be elected, and when the Democratic party held a majority in the Legislature, rendering it impossible for the Whigs to elect any member of their own party, yet, with the assistance of three from the Democratic party, could choose from this party any man they would select and unite upon they determined to propose Grymes, and had secured the requisite assistance from the Democracy.
Their relations were perfectly amicable, but they could not live together. Grymes could have lived with no woman. In all things he was sui generis; with no one like him in any one thing, for he was never the same being two consecutive days.
The old tradition identified the "Lowland Beauty" with Miss Lucy Grymes, perhaps correctly, and there are drafts of letters addressed to "Dear Sally," which suggest that the mistake in identification might have arisen from the fact that there were several ladies who answered to that description.
He was in his early prime, the first full spread of his powers, but he had not forgotten the little Dutch brig Jupiter, or the days when he was himself a redemptioner. Grymes, on the other side, had had to do as we have seen with these same redemptioners before.
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