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Miss Margaretta Schuyler, a beautiful, fragile young girl, was holding fast a silken American flag which she had carried at the head of the procession when a uniformed soldier jumped upon her, twisted her arms until she cried in pain, cursed, struggled until he had torn her flag from its pole, and then broke the pole across her head, exulting in his triumph over his frailer victim.
"Nothing against her! Don't you know any thing in her favour?" "Well, perhaps I do. She is said to be worth some fifty thousand dollars." "Nonsense, Mary! What do I care about her fifty thousand dollars? Don't you know any thing else in her favour?" "Why, yes, brother. As long as you seem so serious about the matter, I think Margaretta a fine girl.
There was but a year's difference in their age; Frank, however, was still a boy, though Patience was fully a woman. "I am ambitious, Lady Margaretta," said she. "I own it; but I am moderate in my ambition. I do love Greshamsbury, and if Mr Gresham had a younger brother, perhaps, you know " "Another just like myself, I suppose," said Frank. "Oh, yes. I could not possibly wish for any change."
"Why, I owe at least that sum; and I cannot stay here unless it is paid." "That is bad." "Out of the fifty thousand I could have squared up, and it would not have been felt. But I cannot use the whole eight thousand, and look Margaretta and her aunt in the face again. And if I don't pay my debts, you see, to prison I must go." "You are in a narrow place, truly. Well, what are you going to do?"
"Peggy, Maggie, Mag, Margaret, Marguerite, Muggins. Hum! Half a dozen of them. Wonder if there are any more? Yes, there's Peggoty and Peg, to say nothing of Margaretta, Gretchen, Meta, Margarita, Keta, Madge. My goodness! Is there any end to my nicknames? I mistrust I'm a very commonplace mortal. I wonder if other girls' names can be twisted around into as many picture puzzles as mine can?
Tell me, senor, my brother Ignacio writes me that he has captured many animals from the French was Margaretta among them? She was a large mule, and in good condition; indeed, there was some flesh on her bones.
'John may say what he likes, continued the countess, urging her excuses on Miss Thorne; 'I am sure we were past the castle gate before twelve, weren't we, Margaretta? 'Upon my word, I don't know, said the Lady Margaretta, 'for I was half asleep. But I do know that I was called sometime in the middle of the night, and was dressing myself before daylight.
"The best thing we can do, Margaretta, I am satisfied, is to sell," he said, taking a chair beside his wife. "The stock is falling every hour, and it is the opinion of competent judges that it will not be worth five dollars in a week." "And other competent judges are of a very different opinion," replied the aunt. "Mr.
Two years ago a sojourn with her mother and Margaretta at Baden-Baden would not have offered to her much that was attractive; but now, in her eyes, such a life seemed to be a life in Paradise. In truth, the tedium of those hours in Princess Royal Crescent had been very heavy. But how could she contrive that it should be so?
As you must naturally have received damage, you will, I think, do well to return hither, by which time I suppose La Margaretta will arrive. Yesterday evening Sir Roger Curtis landed from the Phaeton. He left Lord Howe on the 4th. I know not the particulars, but there has been a general action; and I think Monsieur Jean Bon L'Andre and his Guillotine have had a thorough drubbing.
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