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The squire, though taken aback, demanded: "And I suppose ye have the money ready to douse on pay day?" Hennion sniggered. "Yer won't be hard, thet I know, squire. I reckon yer'll go easy on me." "If ye think I'm going to spare ye on account of Phil ye are mightily out. I'll foreclose the moment each falls due, that I warn ye." "Haow kin yer foreclose whin theer ain't no courts?"
The second signer was the publican; the third was Esquire Hennion; and after him came all the townsmen, save those who had thrown in their lot along with the parson that morning by marching off with Washington. Mr. Meredith descended from his seat and waited his turn to go through what was to him a form, and during this time the ladies watched the troops being ferried across the river.
Meredith gone from the room, the commissary took from his pocket a copy of Gaines' "New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury," which had come to him but that morning, and re-read an account it contained, taken from the "New Jersey Gazette," of the sale of Greenwood to Esquire Hennion. "'T is my devil's ill luck that he, of all men, should buy it," he muttered.
"'T ain't fer a Continental officer ter injure them cairn ginooine Whigs," chimed in Hennion, "an' only swore an oath cuz it seemed bestest jest then." "If you don't want those papers known, stop persecuting the Merediths." "So thet gal 's caught yer, too, hez she? Look aout fer them. They'll use yer ter save theer lands, an' then they'll send yer ter right-abaout, like they done with my Phil.
And ye shall bear it, lad," added Evatt, turning to Phil. "'T ain't no wish of mine," ejaculated Philemon. "There is no one else we can trust. 'T will be but a month's affair, at worst." "But I don't care ter go," dissented Hennion. "I want ter get married ter Miss Janice right off, an' not " "Come, squire, tell the fellow he must n't shirk his duty to his king.
And as if in laying aside his red coat, shorts, and boots he had as well laid aside military rank, he seemed to have already reverted to his old slouch. "Good," exclaimed Cornwallis, as he rose. "Are your other preparations all made?" "Every one, general; and my horse and pack are already at the river-side." The earl took the pile of sorted bills from his desk and handed them to Hennion.
Hennion, do you intend to insult me as well?" "No, no, Miss Janice. I don't believe it. 'T was a lie for certain, and I'm ashamed ter have spoke of it." With unshed tears of mortification in her eyes Janice turned to go, every other ill forgotten in this last grief. "Miss Janice," called Phil, "you can't go without " The girl faced about. "You men are all alike," she cried, interrupting.
"Before I say anything as to that," went on Bagby, "I want to tell you that I've been a good friend of yours. Old Hennion, who 's come out hating your dad the worst way, was for introducing a bill in Assembly last session declaring his lands forfeited, but I told him I'd not have it." "'T is but a duty man owes to prevent evil deeds," said Mrs. Meredith. "We are very grateful, Mr.
"Kinder gettin' anxious, heigh? I calkerlated yer 'd find things sorter pukish." "Tush!" retorted Meredith, making a good pretence of confidence. "'T is mostly wind one hears, and 't will be another matter at the poll. I rid over to say that tho' we may not agree in private matters, 't is the business of the gentry to make head together against this madness." "I see," snarled Hennion.
"Yer might ez waal quit, Joe," interjected Squire Hennion. "I hez more 'n' yer hev, an' I intends ter buy it. Nineteen my bid, pa'son." "Twenty," burst out Joe, malignantly. "Twenty-one." "Twenty-five." Hennion's face in turn grew red with anger, and he half rose, his fist clinched, but recollecting himself he resumed his seat. "Going at twenty-five," announced McClave. "Will any one give more?"
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