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Sanctioned by potentates, blessed by the church, and surrounded with the garments of respectability, the slave trade grew, until, in the words of Samuel Hopkins , "The trade in human species has been the first wheel of commerce in Newport, on which every other movement in business has depended.... By it the inhabitants have gotten most of their wealth and riches."
"Perhaps, just Gentleman, if an allotment should be made in advance from that stock of gold, the mind of my consort would be relieved, her inquiries after my fate not so searching, and her spirit less troubled. I have reason to understand the temper of Desire; and am well identified, that, while the prospect of want is before her eyes, there will be a clamour in Newport.
A young lady drove up, last summer, to the Ocean House at Newport in a pony phaeton, and was offended because a gentleman on the piazza said, "That girl has a very small waist, and she means us to see it." Who was to blame? The young lady was dressed in a very conspicuous manner: she had neither mantle nor jacket about her, and she probably did mean that her waist should be seen.
"Why do you ask such a question?" "I wished to be sure," said Honora. "Sure of what?" "That the-arrangement suited you perfectly. You do not feel the lack of anything, do you?" "What do you mean?" "You wouldn't care to stay in Newport all the time?" "Not if I know myself," he replied. "I leave that part of it to you." "What part of it?" she demanded. "You ought to know.
Having the same abundant leisure, the dwellers up-town also nomads were casting in their minds how best to employ it, and the fortunate ones were already gathering together their flocks and herds and preparing to move on to their camps at Newport or among the feeding-hills of the New-England coast.
Through courtesy of the Daily Press, Newport News. Christmas at Kecoughtan 1608 A group of colonists from Jamestown bound for Powhatan's seat on the York River put in at Kecoughtan after encountering adverse weather. Christmas in the seventeenth century was celebrated on the day known to the present as "Old Christmas," that is the sixth of January.
One heard of monkey dinners and pyjama dinners at Newport, of horseback dinners and vegetable dances in New York.
Abbott came to one of her luncheons attired in a pique skirt and severe shirtwaist, impeccably cut and worn, but entirely out of place in an Italian palace, where forty fashionable women, some of whom had motored sixty miles to attend the function, were dressed as they would be at a Newport luncheon, Mrs. But one morning Mrs. Abbott caught Mrs.
Sir Henry Clinton arrived the next day; and the loss of the American army would have been inevitable. The complete success of this expedition had been confidently anticipated throughout America; and the most brilliant results had been expected from the capture of so important a part of the British army as the garrison of Newport.
Miss Lucilla van Tromp couldn't spare her. As a matter of fact, she Miss Lucilla asked me to go to Newport and stay with her all the time Dorothea is with the Prouds; but I declined the invitation. You see now that I don't lack cool and comfortable quarters because I couldn't get them." "I see," he nodded. "You evidently prefer this."
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