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I kept up my intimacy with Dirck Follock, during the whole time I remained at college. He continued the classics with Mr. Worden, for two years after I left the school; but I could not discover that his progress amounted to anything worth mentioning.
Guert was evidently the principal person in this consultation, everybody appearing to listen to his suggestions with respect and attention. At length our friend came out of the circle, and in a courteous, self-possessed manner communicated the difficulty in the following words: "You must know, Rev. Mr. Worden, and Mr. Littlepage, and Mr. Follock, and Mr.
Follock to be envied, since he can call cousin with so charming a young lady as Anneke Mordaunt." "True sir, most true!" I interrupted, eagerly; "Anne Mordaunt passes for the sweetest girl in York!" "I do not know that I should go quite as far as that, Mr.
Bulstrode," was my answer, "inasmuch as I have never supposed the king's forces contemplated quite so distant a march. It is the intention of Mr. Follock and myself to get permission to attach ourselves to some regiment and to go forward as far as Ticonderoga, at least; for we do not like the idea of the French holding a post like that, so far within the limits of our own province."
Follock had others of the same description, and when the cavalry of the two farms were all assembled at Satanstoe, there were found to be no fewer than fourteen of the venerable animals. These made just three four-horse teams, besides leaving a pair for a lighter load.
What Col. Follock said to Dirck, the latter never told me; but the following was pretty much the form and substance of that which I received from my own father the interview taking place in a little room he called his "office;" or "study," as Jason used to term it.
"You shall be paid liberally for your teams, harness and sleighs," he continued, "though no sum can be named until I see them. These are not times when operations are to be retarded on account of a few joes, more or less, for the King's service must go on. I very well know that Major Littlepage and Col. Follock both understand what they are about, and have sent us the right sort of things.
I am at a loss to imagine why I am named as one disposed to deny it. Had it been Guert Ten Eyck, now, or ever Dirck Follock, one might imagine such a thing,-but I, who come from English blood, and who have an English-born grandfather, at this moment, alive and well at Satanstoe, am not to be included among the disaffected to England."
"How odd it is, Corny," added my mother, in a sort of musing, soliloquizing way, "you are an only child, and Anneke Mordaunt is also an only child, as Dirck Follock has often told me." "Then Dirck has spoken to you frequently of Anneke, before this, mother?" "Time and again; they are relations, you must have heard; as, indeed, you are yourself, if you did but know it."
Newcome at your elbow, Follock, and dying to be introduced, as he sees I have been." Anneke turned to smile and curtsey again to Jason, who made his bow in a very school-master sort of a fashion, while I could see that the circumstance I had not boasted of my exploit gave it new importance in the sweet creature's eyes.
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