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Clinton's party, I sat beside him for half an hour, and was really disgusted with his marked disregard of the little courtesies of social life." "Indeed!" replied Jane, her manner becoming more serious, "and in what did these omissions consist?" "Why, in the first place, while we were conversing, " "He could converse, then?" said Jane, interrupting her friend. "O, no, I beg pardon!
They sped on in silence only now and then stopping to change hands with their heavy load until they once more stood at the door of Clinton's house. Here, placing their booty upon the ground, Clinton lifted up a trap-door, concealed just under the steps leading up to the front entrance.
Notwithstanding the fatigue which Colonel Burr had undergone during the night of the 27th and the succeeding day, yet he remained up the night of the 28th also. Sir Henry Clinton's troops were employed in removing their wounded, and then marched away in such silence, that, though General Poor lay near them, their retreat was effected without his knowledge.
I have never thought, as some do, that any Eve was active in the temptation which led to the dark treachery of the saddest hour of that weary war. Arnold's first downward step was taken months before he knew Margaret Shippen, as Sir Henry Clinton's papers have now most clearly shown. Of my personal regret as to Arnold's disgrace I have said little in these pages, and shall say but little more.
He now greeted them with hearty affection, and told them that if they were good girls they might come and look at the pheasants with him when he had read his letters and they had had their tea, and then took himself off to his library. Mrs. Clinton's greeting was less hearty, but not less affectionate.
My part hitherto has been, with Sir Henry Clinton's approval, to make up a chosen body of men from all branches of the army; and my part finally shall be to lead this select troop on horseback one dark night, by a devious route, to that part of the rebel lines nearest Washington's quarters; then, with the coöperation that this lady has obtained among the rebels, to make a swift dash upon those quarters, seize Washington while our presence is scarce yet known, and carry him back to New York by outriding all pursuit.
In February he went to the Assembly to fight Clinton's opposition to the harassing need of conferring a permanent revenue upon Congress. He had already written a memorial, distributed over the State, setting forth the dangerous position of the country. But Clinton was lord of the masses, and their representatives in the Legislature had been trained to think as he thought.
By this time General Charles Lee, Washington's second in command, was in a good position to attack the British rear guard from the north, while Washington, marching three miles behind Lee, was to come up in the hope of overwhelming it from the rear. Clinton's position was difficult but he was saved by Lee's ineptitude.
Something very strange had happened up there, but it was lost to Clinton's keen jealous gaze one of those happenings in the soul, which, however momentous, passes unobserved in the midst of the throng. "Not so fast!" Grace cautioned Gregory. "We must wait up here till the very last don't you see Mr. Clinton? And Simon Jefferson is now pointing us out. We can't go down that way " "We!"
Harry, as a passenger, felt more independent. Indeed, he was indignant, and ready to resist what he thought uncalled-for interference on the part of the captain. "This is Mr. Clinton's trunk," he said. "We are going to carry it to him." "Do you dare to dispute my authority?" roared the captain, his red face becoming still redder.
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