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"You weren't exactly a David, then?" laughed the patroon, in spite of his bad humor. "I'll throw the stone yet," said the little man, viciously showing his yellow teeth. "The law's the sling." That evening, when the broad meadows were inundated by the shadow of the forest that crept over it like an incoming tide, the land baron ordered lights for every room.
"Ay, it's that whelp, Sir John, who has marred what the great baronet left as his monument," growled old Peter Van Horn. "That's treason!" snapped the patroon. "Stop it. I won't have politics talked in my presence, no! Dammy, Peter, hold your tongue, sir!" Dorothy, wearing the lilac spray, vaulted lightly into her saddle, and I mounted my mare.
In that sea of faces, her features alone shone before him, clearly, insistently. "Do you know her, Mr. Mauville?" asked the rhymster, observing that steadfast glance. "Know her?" repeated the land baron, starting. "Oh, I've seen her act." "Tip me off her points and I'll tip my readers." "She is going to play here then?" said the patroon. "Yes. What is she like?
This self-conquest was not accomplished, however, without a sacrifice of temper, for after a pause, he observed: "There is no accounting for a woman's taste!" She did not controvert this statement, but the start she gave told him the shaft had sped home. "An outlaw! An outcast!" exclaimed the patroon, stung beyond endurance by his thoughts. Still no reply; only more hurried footsteps!
One of these patroons, Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a wealthy merchant in Holland, who had been accustomed to polish pearls and diamonds, became, as patroon, possessed of nearly the whole of the present counties of Albany and Rensselaer, in the State cf New York, embracing the vast area of one thousand one hundred and forty-one square miles.
After impatiently riding an hour or more through this delectable region, the horseman drew near the patroon village, a cluster of houses amid the hills and meadows. Here the land barons had originally built for the tenants comfortable houses and ample barns, saw and grist mills.
Stirrup-cups were filled and passed up to us, and we drained a cooled measure of spiced claret to the master of the pleasure-house, who pledged us gracefully in return, and then stood by Dorothy's horse, chatting and laughing until, at a sign from Sir Lupus, Cato sounded "Afoot!" on his curly hunting-horn, and the patroon wheeled his big horse out into the road, with a whip-salute to our host.
His assailant quickly grasped the weapon, presenting it to the breast of the surprised land-owner, who looked, not into the face of an unknown anti-renter, but into the stern, familiar countenance of Saint-Prosper. The afternoon following the soldier's departure from the patroon village went by all too slowly, his jaded horse's feet as heavy as the leaden moments.
I was in Albany, in the legislature, that winter, and I knew them both very well; but your aunt Lucy had been married some years before. She was staying there that winter without her husband he was abroad somewhere." Fleda was no stranger to these details and had learned long ago what was meant by 'wards' and 'the patroon. "Your father was made a major some years afterwards," Mr.
No "man or woman, son or daughter, man servant or maid servant" could leave a patroon's service during the time that they had agreed to remain, except by his written consent, no matter what abuses or breaches of contract were committed by the patroon. "Burghers and Freemen of New York":29.
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