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Burr had found other Ohio people too plodding, as he said, but the Blennerhassetts took him seriously, and when Burr in his repeated visits tempted the husband, and flattered the wife, who was ambitious only for her husband, he easily beguiled them into a belief in his glorious destiny. Blennerhassett put all his fortune into the venture.
In his ark, seated at a rough table, he wrote to those he hoped to gain or feared to lose. He did not neglect the Blennerhassetts, nor Arlington, nor the confiding young law-students of Pittsburg. A lengthy letter was penned to the Hon. John Smith, and, at the same sitting, a model billet-doux to Mrs. Rosemary.
Theodosia and her husband had joined him at the home of the Blennerhassetts, and they were near him when the President's proclamation dashed the scheme to atoms, scattered the band of adventurers, and sent Burr a prisoner to Richmond, charged with high treason. Mr.
Arlington, no satisfaction comes to either party in a fatal conflict. The dead man is indifferent to the boast of honor vindicated. I have fought my last duel. But don't imagine me afraid of threats, or bullets, or swords." The Virginian responded in milder tones. "Can you justify your deceptions, practised on me, or make amends for the injury done the Blennerhassetts?" "I justify nothing.
'Rose of Sharon' is good. By the way, we can't be far from the Bower of Bliss. We must tie up our Argo there as Brackenridge recommended, and go in quest of those exotic and visionary Blennerhassetts." "What do you know of them, colonel, further than we learned in Pittsburg?" "But little. They stopped in New York for a few months, after arriving in this country, ten or twelve years ago.
Around this nucleus the hitherto mobile elements of his design should crystallize into definite shape. What had Burr been doing in the three-quarters of a year which had elapsed since he bade good-bye to the Blennerhassetts in October?
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