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It was not half an hour more before he returned, wild with excitement in a perfect Irish fury which it was long before I understood. But I knew at once that he had undone me! What happened was this: The audience got together, attracted by Governor Gorges's name. There were a thousand people. Poor Gorges was late from Augusta. They became impatient.
It is highly probable that this grand scheme duly embellished by the crafty Gorges, being unfolded to Weston, with suggestions of great opportunities for Weston himself therein, warmed and drew him, and brought him to full and zealous cooperation in all Gorges's plans, and that from this time, as Bradford states, he "begane to incline" toward, and to suggest to the Pilgrims, association with Gorges and the new "Council."
In his review of the Anniversary Address of Hon. The known facts favor the belief that Gorges's cogitations on colonial matters especially as stimulated by his plottings in relation to the Leyden people led to his project of the grant and charter for the new "Council for New England," designed and constituted to supplant, or override, all others.
Laconia Mining Co., I stepped into the dressing-room for a moment, stepped out for another, walked home, after a nod with Dennis, and tying the horse to a pump; and while I walked home, Mr. Frederic Ingham, my double, stepped in through the library into the Gorges's grand saloon. Oh! Polly died of laughing as she told me of it at midnight!
His professed inability to devise any way for getting south of the Cape is strong proof of guilt." The sequential acts of the Gorges conspiracy were doubtless practically as follows: He and Cushman, who was clearly entirely innocent of the conspiracy, had the hiring of the ship and of her officers, and at this point he and his acts were of vital importance to Gorges's plans.
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