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Seizures, confiscations, the slave-trade, marriages in short, the long game of advantage built up the fortunes of the Custises, until they expired in a certain Judge, whose notes of hand a hard man, forest-born, held over the Judge's head on what seemed hard conditions, but conditions in which was every quality of mercy, except consideration for your pride." The Judge made a laugh like a howl.
We Custises rather looked down on Colonel Washington in those days; he was not of the old gentry; his poor mother could barely read and write, and once, when we went to Fredericksburg to see her, she was riding out in the field among her few negroes as her own overseer, wearing an old sun-bonnet, and sunburned like a forester." "Dear me!" exclaimed Mrs. Custis.
He intended his gift to be my marriage dower, and were I to convey it to you I should first ask his consent; not in law, perhaps, but in delicacy." "Oh, yes," the Judge said carelessly, "I am glad you have such good reasons. Yet, my beautiful, my last child, pride of my race! I hate to see you so ready for this business this calculation and foresight. It is not like the Custises.
The Judge at Princess Anne was the most handsome man, the father of the finest family of sons and daughters, the best in estate, most various in knowledge, and the most convivial of Custises. In that region of the Eastern Shore there is so little diversity of productions, the ocean and the loam alone contributing to man, that Judge Custis had an exaggerated reputation as a mineralogist.
The road to Washington was in places good, and often turned in among the pines. At Riverdale they saw the deer of Mr. George Calvert, a descendant of one of the Lords Baltimore, browsing in his park, and his great four-in-hand carriage was going in the lodge-gates from a state visit to the Custises.
He belonged to the oldest colonial family of distinction, the Custises of Northampton, whose fortune, beginning with King Charles II. and his tavern credits in Rotterdam, ended in endowing Colonel George Washington with a widow's mite.
The McLanes, the Custises, and all their connections, from the Christine River to the James, will storm Annapolis, make your cause, if necessary, a political issue, and the courts of this county will give you damages out of this beast's unpopular wealth." Vesta looked at her mother with astonishment.
"Pshaw! the Custises were libertines, unless history belies them; they had else no popularity in the scamp court of Charley-over-the-water. He thought the daughter of any gentleman in his following was made for his mistress, and a large percentage of the said damsels thought he was right." "Mr.
No, father, I only do my part to support our house in its extremity, as these gentlemen and others have done before." She pointed to the old portraits of Custises on the wall. If any of them looked dissatisfied, he met a countenance haughty as his own. "Vesta," her father called, "you know you do not love this man?"
We were, I suppose, originally, just seized and appropriated, and are looking out for the appropriator to this day. But you, Vesta, with the Baltimore blood in you, do not expect to play the Sabine bride tamely like that to defend your spoiler and reconcile him to your brethren?" "I was thinking it was the Baltimore blood that made me appreciate Mr. Milburn, mamma. The Custises were not traders."
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