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Ernestine kept with her for the first hour, then, growing weary of the hubbub, wandered away from the market to explore the old town. She sat for a while in the churchyard, and there, to enliven her solitude, re-read that letter of Rivington's. Was he really taking up art again to please her? He had been very energetic. She wondered, smiling, how long his energy would last.
Last night I wouldn't go out with the others. I simply couldn't face it. And do you know he came to me!" She began to breathe quickly, unevenly. The hands that lay in Rivington's quiet grasp moved with nervous restlessness. "There was no one in the house besides the servants," she said. "What could I do? He was admitted before I knew.
"To-morrow morning." She hesitated for a second; then, "Of course she will be furious," she said. "You won't be able to argue with her. No one can." Rivington's eyes looked faintly quizzical. "I don't propose to try," he said. "She is, as I well know, an adept in the gentle art of snubbing. And I am no match for her there.
Of course, I ought to have refused to see him, but he was very insistent, and I thought it a mistake to seem afraid. So I went to him I went to him." The words came with a rush. She began to tremble all over. She was almost sobbing. Rivington's fingers closed very slowly, barely perceptibly, till his grip was warm and close. "Take your time," he said gently. "It's all right, you know all right."
It must go, however, from Rivington's with 'from the author, and I will add my own writing when we meet. The famous case of Macmullen versus Hampden was disturbing the University for most of the latter half of the same year 1843. I can only give a mere chronological outline of it, which may assist such readers as wish to pursue the subject in consulting other sources of information.
The hope of the ever-alert commander in chief was fulfilled, for the young clergyman soon found himself a prisoner in the famous Sugar House, in New York. The next day, the dispatch was printed with great show in Rivington's Tory paper.
Margaret and her mother sailed with Sir Roger Waite and his regiments on the tenth of March and arrived in New York on the twenty-sixth of April. Rivington's Gazette of the twenty-eighth of that month describes an elaborate dinner given by Major John André, Adjutant-General of the British Army, at the City Hotel to General Sir Benjamin Hare and Lady Hare and their daughter Margaret.
But although there is frequent mention in the periodicals of the day of the prison ships of New York the Jersey did not become notorious until later. On the 29th of June, 1779, Sir George Collier, in a notice in Rivington's Gazette, forbids "privateers landing prisoners on Long Island to the damage and annoyance of His Majesty's faithful servants."
"More fools they," said the knight errant, with somewhat unusual emphasis. "It's their loss, anyway." She laughed a little. "It's very nice of you to say so, but it doesn't alter the fact. Besides " She paused. "Besides " said Rivington. She looked at him suddenly. "What about that nice little woman who may turn up some day?" The humorous corner of Rivington's mouth went up.
He failed entirely to avail himself of the room in the Rivington's Newport villa, though Dorothy wrote appealingly, and cited his own words to him. Even to his partners he became almost silent, except on law matters. Jenifer found that no delicacy, however rare or however well cooked and served, seemed to be noticed any more than if it was mess-pork.
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