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General Washington had passed the day at Brooklyn, making arrangements for the approaching action; and, at night, had returned to New York. The Hessians under General De Heister composed the centre of the British army at Flatbush; Major General Grant commanded the left wing which extended to the coast, and the greater part of the British forces under General Clinton.
"Most of the inhabitants of the village were Protestants, but there were a few Roman Catholics, and these had a priest, an elderly man, who was a great friend of Heister Kamp, and might often be seen in her kitchen, talking over with her the affairs of the village. He was called Father St. Goar, and he had a small chapel, and a little bit of a house attached to it.
"'Oh! there are a thousand ways of getting at the truth, replied Heister; 'for if anything does happen out of the very commonest way, is it not talked of in my house by those who come and go? But this thing is in everybody's mouth, and people don't scruple to say that there were a vast number of golden pieces in the purse some say a hundred.
Unrivalled dissectors, Swammerdam, Leeuwenhoek, Winslow, Eustachius, Heister, Vesalius, Boerhaave, had left nothing for scalpel or microscope to reveal in human or comparative anatomy; Linnaeus, his contemporary, was affirming, in his beautiful science, that "Nature is always like herself;" and, lastly, the nobility of method, the largest application of principles, had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology; whilst Locke and Grotius had drawn the moral argument.
"Margot immediately offered her nosegay, but she refused it, saying she did not want such flowers as those, but such curious ones as she sometimes found near the waterfall. "'I have got none now, answered Margot. "'But you found a very curious one the other day, did you not, my pretty little damsel? said Heister. "'Yes, madame, said Margot, brightening up; 'yes, madame, I did.
"'Pshaw, child, said Heister Kamp impatiently; 'it is not that I want to know. What was it you called a golden fish and moons? "'Moons! repeated Margot, colouring up to her very brow, 'moons, madame? "'Ay, moons, child. What do you mean by moons?
"'A pretty turn off! said Heister; 'but you know that I mean the gold and silver fish to be louis-d'ors and francs, Ella. Has not your father now, girl, got more of these than he ever had in his life before?
I thought it had been known only to this family and me. "'I am the guilty person, said Meeta, coming forward; 'I will not throw suspicion on others by hiding my fault; and she then repeated her conversation with Heister Kamp, but she could give no account of how the secret had passed on to the gipsies.
"Oh, Henry!" said Mrs. Fairchild, smiling, "how nicely you have kept papa's secret! You see you would not have done so well as little Margot did with Heister Kamp." Henry made no answer, and Emily went on.
You don't know what a pleasant story we have been reading, and we have half of it left to read. Shall I tell it to you, papa?" she added; and springing up, she placed herself close to him, putting one arm round his neck, and in a few minutes she made him as well acquainted with Monique, and Martin, and Ella, and Meeta, and Jacques, and Margot, and Heister Kamp, and Father St.
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