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Updated: June 11, 2025
"I trouble you, my dear fellow, with all these details, that you may not run away with the notion that Flowerdew is blindly in love. My faculties were never more completely about me than they are at this moment. I am at a loss to imagine why a man should throw his head away when he yields his heart.
It be a parlous job, and for mine own part, whether for the love I bear to the truth, or the hatred I cherish toward the scarlet Antichrist, with her seven tails 'Tush, tush, John! Seven heads, man, and ten horns. Those are the numbers master Flowerdew read. 'Nay, I know not for your horns; but for the rest I say seven tails.
Did not honest master Flowerdew set forth unto us last meeting that the scarlet woman sat upon seven hills eh? Have with you there, master Sycamore! 'Well, for the sake of sound argument, I grant you.
It is but a leg-bone now; it will be a rib to-morrow, and by and by doubtless it will be the skull itself. 'If you care for none of these things, sir, will not master Flowerdew have a hard name for you? I know not what it means, but it sounds of the gallows, said Richard, looking rather doubtful as to how his father might take it.
I shouldn't like to be compelled to buy all the cigars he'll smoke before he turns his toes up." Flowerdew, from Fontainebleau. "Fontainebleau, July 1. "MY DEAR MAC, I am tempted to send you a few lines from this wonderful place. You have heard of Fontainebleau grapes you have tasted them; but you have not seen Fontainebleau.
It be a parlous job, and for mine own part, whether for the love I bear to the truth, or the hatred I cherish toward the scarlet Antichrist, with her seven tails 'Tush, tush, John! Seven heads, man, and ten horns. Those are the numbers master Flowerdew read. 'Nay, I know not for your horns; but for the rest I say seven tails.
He had not got far, however, before a shrill whistle pierced the air, and the next instant arose a chaos of horrible, appalling, and harrowing noises, 'such a roaring, in the words of their own report of the matter to the reverend master Flowerdew, 'as if the mouth of hell had been wide open, and all the devils conjured up' doubtless they meant by the arts of the wizard whose dwelling was that same tower of fearful fame before which they now stood.
Before 1627 the first windmill in the colony had been erected and was in operation at Flowerdew Hundred, Governor Yeardley's plantation on the south side of the James River. The more affluent planters like Yeardley, and in keeping with the English customs, maintained homes at the seat of government while operating large plantations on the River not too far distant.
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