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Gibson's voice when he spoke seriously, especially when he referred to any feeling of his own he who so rarely betrayed what was passing in his heart that was irresistible to most people: the change from joking and sarcasm to tender gravity. Mr. Coxe hung his head a little, and meditated. 'I do love Miss Gibson, said he at length. 'Who could help it? 'Mr. Wynne, I hope! said Mr. Gibson.
But if you'll take my advice, you will spare yourself the pain of a refusal. I may, perhaps, be trenching on confidence, but I think I ought to tell you that her affections are otherwise engaged. 'It cannot be! said Mr. Coxe. 'Mr. Gibson, there must be some mistake. I have gone as far as I dared in expressing my feelings, and her manner has been most gracious.
"I'll take your seven to four, in tens," said I to the Baron. "Give me three," says he, "and done." I gave him three, and lost the game by one. "Dobbel, or quits," says he. "Go it," says I, up to my mettle: "Sam Coxe never says no;" and to it we went. I went in, and scored eighteen to his five. "Holy Moshesh!" says Abednego, "dat little Coxsh is a vonder! who'll take odds?"
'His heart is pre-engaged, replied Mr. Coxe. 'Mine was free as air till I saw her. 'Would it tend to cure your well! passion, we'll say if she wore blue spectacles at meal-times? I observe you dwell much on the beauty of her eyes. 'You are ridiculing my feelings, Mr. Gibson. Do you forget that you yourself were young once? 'Poor Jeanie' rose before Mr.
Thus, when Marlborough, at the beginning of June, left the Rhine and marched for the Danube, the numerous hostile armies were uncombined and unable to check him. "With such skill and science," says Coxe, "had this enterprise been concerted that at the very moment when it assumed a specific direction the enemy was no longer enabled to render it abortive.
But even Coxe cannot hide the fact that the granting of the patent and the circumstances under which it was granted, amounted to a disgraceful job, by which an opportunity was seized to benefit a "noble person" in England at the expense of Ireland.
The experimental stage found an enthusiastic worker in the person of Tench Coxe, known often as the "Father of American Industries," whose interest in the beginning was philanthropic rather than commercial. Bent upon employment for idle and destitute workmen, he exhibited in Philadelphia in 1775 the first spinning-jenny seen in America.
"You will find me, my Prince, always ready to renew the patent for the government of the Low Countries, formerly sent to you, and to extend it for your life." King Charles to Marlborough, August 8, 1708. Coxe, IV. 245.
Gibson, a good deal surprised. 'Yes, sir! continued Mr. Coxe, rushing on now he had got so far. 'I know it may appear inconstant and changeable, but I do assure you, I came here with a heart as faithful to your daughter as ever beat in a man's bosom.
To this extent General Coxe of Fluvanna County, Virginia, taught about one hundred of his adult slaves. While serving as a professor of the Military Institute at Lexington, Stonewall Jackson taught a class of Negroes in a Sunday-school. Further interest in the cause was shown by the Evangelical Society of the Synods of North Carolina and Virginia in 1834.
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