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Besides the desk, a bench, two or three wooden chairs, and a chest, there was little furniture in the room. Blunt's busy pen at length ceased to move, and Sharp looked at him. "Well, Blunt," he said, "I see nothing for it but to make a railway porter of you." "By all means, sir," said Blunt, with a smile, laying down his pen. "Gorton station," continued Sharp, "has become a very nest of thieves.
Casting a keen glance at the red hair, he saw it was indisputably his own. A few rapid questions, which Gorton answered without the slightest demur, and Mr. Carr leaned back in his chair, knowing that all the trouble he had been at to find this man might have been spared: for he was not the George Gordon they had suspected. But Mr. Carr was cautious, and betrayed nothing.
That night he led his men to Gorton station, and when he thought a suitable hour had arrived, he caused them to surround the block of buildings in which the men of the station resided. Then, placing Blunt and two or three men in front of Davis's house, he went up to the door alone and knocked. Mrs Davis opened it.
Childe has described the attack which overwhelmed him, and Gorton gives a striking account of their process of inciting a crusade: The persecution of the Baptists lays bare this selfish clerical policy.
There are many caves of the same kind in different parts of Scotland. I need only instance those of Gorton, near Rosslyn, in a scene well known to the admirers of romantic nature. The light within the eave was a dusky twilight at the entrance, which failed altogether in the inner recesses.
Gorton, Randall Holden, Mrs. Dyer, and other "exorbitant persons," who had been found "unmeet to abide in this jurisdiction," could not be got rid of once for all. Mr. Arnold glories in the early reproach of Rhode Island. He finds its title to honor above every other spot on earth in the phenomena which made it so hateful to Massachusetts.
Was she not entering upon a newer and higher sphere of life? Was she not to be the mistress of a splendid mansion? Was she not to be the envied of many and many a one who had feigned every attraction and exerted every effort for the station, she was to assume; and should she weep with this in view? Thus Mr. Gorton thought as man often reasons.
Samuel Gorton played an influential and useful part in the later history of the colony, and his career of peaceful service to Rhode Island belies the opinion, based on Winslow's partisan pamphlet, Hypocrasie Unmasked, and other contemporary writings, that he was a blasphemer, a "crude and half-crazy thinker," a "proud and pestilent seducer," and a "most prodigious minter of exorbitant novelties."
"Teachin' tricks t' a dog is kid stuff." "Can you do it?" the cook asked sarcastically. "Who'd bother t' try?" Hanlon looked up, blandly. "You couldn't expect that of Mr. Gorton, Cookie. To teach an animal to do tricks you have to know more than it does." "Why, you ..." Gorton started forward, his face aflame, while the other men roared with laughter at the rough wit.
Cotton went to the jail window to see them; and after some little discourse with them, he told Gorton that if he had done or said anything which he could with a clear conscience renounce, he would do well to recant the same, and the Court, he doubted not, would be merciful; adding, that it would be no disparagement for him to do so, as the best of men were liable to err: as, for instance, his brother Cotton here generally did preach that one year which he publicly repented of before his congregation the next year."
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