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For the last two hours Mrs. Medora Hastings and Mr. Augustus Frothingham had sat in a white marble room of the king's palace, playing chess on Mr. Frothingham's pocket chess-board. Mr.
And how many of the people who crowded to her concert last night would hear the news this morning with genuine distress on her account? Gratified envy would be the prevailing mood, with rancorous hostility in the minds of those who were losers by Bennet Frothingham's knavery or ill-fortune.
The story of his romantic after marriage, and many details of his career from birth to death, will be found in Mr. O. B. Frothingham's "Life of George Ripley," told by his kindly biographer.
See the "Writings of Washington," iii, 161, note. The facts concerning Washington's difficulties with enlisting are taken chiefly from this volume, where they can best be studied. This was a Sunday. Frothingham's "Siege," 104. Carcasses were hollow shells with several openings. They were filled with combustibles, and when thrown into a town were intended to set fire to buildings.
The following description of the Bunker Hill Monument and Square is from Mr. Frothingham's History of the Siege of Boston, pp. 355, 356. "Monument Square is four hundred and seventeen feet from north to south, and four hundred feet from east to west, and contains nearly six acres. It embraces the whole site of the redoubt, and a part of the site of the breastwork.
"It's all right!" said the old lady, impatiently, "nobody could say anything that wasn't good about Sidney Burgoyne." Thus reassured, Barry turned obediently to the indicated place. "'You ask me about your new neighbor," he read, "'I suppose of course you know that she is Paul Frothingham's only child by his second marriage.
Two were found guilty of manslaughter. The rest were acquitted. On the massacre read Frothingham's Life of Warren, Chaps. 6, 7; Kidder's The Boston Massacre; Joseph Warren's Oration on March 6, 1775, in Library of American Literature, Vol.
Perhaps because he was forty years of age, perhaps because he had so often come and seen and conquered, perhaps because he made too low an estimate of Bennet Frothingham's daughter, he simply overlooked sentimental considerations. It was a great and a fatal oversight.
"Memorial History of Boston," iii, 15. Frothingham's "Warren," 467. Revere's narrative. Frothingham's "Siege," 95. "Familiar Letters of John and Abigail Adams," 54. Lieutenant Barker makes a suggestion that must have been popular among the officers. "I wonder the G l will allow any of their people to quit the Town till they return the Prisoners; one wou'd think he might get 'em if he'd try."
As it would be difficult farther to condense the information contained in this interesting summary, we must refer the reader to Mr. Frothingham's work for an adequate account of the causes which delayed the completion of the monument for nearly seventeen years, and of the resources and exertions by which the desired end was finally attained.
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