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Their mind rests contented as soon as they are convinced no power can ravish from them the fruits of their industry; that they labour for themselves; that the sweat of their brow is for the immediate comfort of their own families.
Roman nobles are Roman by education and tradition; by blood they are almost cosmopolitans. The practice of intermarrying with the great families of the rest of Europe is so general as to be almost a rule.
Their architecture is exactly alike, their height is similar, and it is quite evident that the rivalry of the two families has never been absolutely decided by any stroke of fortune in favor of either. It may perhaps be well to explain what should be understood by this word, "Tower."
After the battle of Lewes, 1264, the King, with the advice of his barons he was now a prisoner in their camp issued a proclamation to the Lord Mayor and sheriffs of London, in favor of the Jews. Some had found refuge, during the tumult and massacre, in the Tower of London; they were permitted to return with their families to their homes.
There everything was soon settled, the Templar procured their discharge, put them to board at a house which he could command, and bargained with a captain of a New England vessel for their passage thither; not as for persons who had been guilty of any misdeeds here, but as of young women of good families, who were unwilling to go to service here, and had therefore got their friends to raise as much money as would send them over there, where perhaps they might meet with better fortune.
But he was not going empty-handed, not he! he was going with as much as ever he could rake together. "And it was on that first occasion that he told me what he wanted of me. You know, Neale, that I am trustee for two or three families in this town.
Two nights later my host dispatched me alone, to dine at what he described to me as one of the pleasantest houses in New York. I shrank from the prospect of the wintry journey involved, but the dinner was worth the trouble. My entertainers a mother and two unmarried daughters belonged to one of the oldest and best known New York families. The house was in keeping with its inmates.
"I believe," he said, "I believe that if the evening were not drawing to a close it is already within a few minutes of our departure, young gentleman I believe, I say, that if I had time, I could, from memory, give the names of the fifty families who held those tickets when the race-meeting came to an end. I believe I could!" "I'm sure you could!" asserted the little man in the loud suit.
They might have been able to get enough fish for their wants; but a fish-and-water diet would scarcely be sufficient. "At the same time we are by no means sure that they could have had no communication with the outside, for just as some families may have been ordered to live here, others may have been instructed to supply them with food.
God will help me to provide for my children." In this spirit the almost heart-broken young woman for whom the boarding-house keeper felt more than a common interest an interest that would not let her thrust her out from the only place she could call her home sought for work and was fortunate enough to obtain sewing from two or three families, and was thus enabled to pay a light board for herself and children.
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