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Instead of abandoning these poor fellows to their fate, and merely writing a letter to say how I had been disappointed by the Westminster patriots, or rather pretended patriots, I ordered my servant to get my horses and gig ready immediately, and I started off the same evening across the country to Newbury, on my road through Abingdon and Oxford, towards Derby.
Pale cheeks were not in vogue, and frankness had superseded sentiment. 'What souvenir would they give each other if they had to part? thought Miss Abingdon 'a terrier dog, or a gun, or a walking-stick, most likely! Faded flowers were quite out of the fashion, and old letters no longer had the scent of dried rose leaves about them.
They have not changed the appearance much, for it was the especial wish of every one concerned that it should remind one of old associations as much as possible. The good bishop of Dorchester, the abbot of Abingdon, and many others of my friends amongst the brethren there, the neighbouring clergy and thanes, all met together to dedicate the new house to God.
Lord ABINGDON next rose, and said: My lords, the present motion is undoubtedly just, but by no means necessary, or particularly adapted to the present time. It contains a general principle, uncontested, and established; a principle which this assembly has never denied, and from which I know not that it has ever departed.
Rising from the writing table in the library, Paul Harley crossed to the mantelpiece and stared long and hungrily at a photograph in a silver frame. So closely did he concentrate upon it that he induced a sort of auto-hypnosis, so that Phil Abingdon seemed to smile at him sadly. Then a shadow appeared to obscure the piquant face.
Disheartened by this calamity, John Crockett made another move. Knoxville, on the Holston River, had by this time become quite a thriving little settlement of log huts. The main route of emigration was across the mountains to Abingdon, in Southwestern Virginia, and then by an extremely rough forest-road across the country to the valley of the Holston, and down that valley to Knoxville.
Phil Abingdon glanced rapidly at Doctor McMurdoch and then lowered her head. She did not answer at once. "I know to whom you refer, Mr. Harley," she said, finally. "But it was I who had made this gentleman's acquaintance. My father did not know him." "Then I wonder why he mentioned him?" murmured Harley. "That I cannot imagine. I have been wondering ever since Doctor McMurdoch told me."
The whole family of the ex-President have departed this world, but his memory is still green in this region, where he was almost worshiped so the people say in speaking of him. Forlorn as was the hotel at Union, the landlord's daughters were beginning to draw the lines in rural refinement. One of them had been at school in Abingdon.
Chief-Justice Holt, who reformed the legal procedure of England, was also a native of Abingdon; he admitted prisoners to some rights, protected defendants in suits, and had the irons stricken off the accused when brought into court, for in those days of the cruel rule of Judge Jeffreys the defendant was always considered guilty until adjudged innocent.
Upon the ground on which it stood thirty-four years later in 1677 the Abingdon folk reared their fine town hall; its style resembles that of Inigo Jones, and it has an open undercroft a kindly shelter from the weather for market women. Tall and graceful it dominates the market-place, and it is crowned with a pretty cupola and a fine vane.
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