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"If the king 's come to his senses and intends to deal fair with us," remarked Bagby, with a preliminary glance around and a precautionary dropping of his voice, "that 's all I ask, and so I don't see no reason for attacking his friends until we are more certain of what 's coming. At the same time, if Hennion wants to jail you, I think you'll own I have n't much reason to take your part.
"Waal, I declare, if thet don't favour Squire Meredith, an' his darter," interjected a farmer, suddenly, pointing with his pipe to where an army waggon was approaching on the Princeton post-road. "Swan, ef yer ain't right," cried Hennion. "I did hope we wuz quit of them fer good an' all." "Wonder what the gal 's in black fer?" observed a lounger.
"He won't do nothin' but lease. He don't want no freemen 'bout here." "Yer might buy o' Squire Hennion. He sells now an' agin," suggested the innkeeper." "Who's he?" demanded Evatt. "Another of the monopolisers who got a grant in the early days, before the land was good for anything," explained Bagby. "His property is further down."
As Hennion took it, he said: "I will endeavour not to fail your Lordship in either respect; in going, however, I have one favour to crave of you. I leave behind me my promised bride, Miss Meredith; and I beg of you that she shall not want for any service that your Lordship can render her, or that I could do were I but here."
And yet what think you the committee did?" "They asked you to take it to him?" "Not they, the Ah! there 's no words to fit them. Old Hennion, mean hunks that he is, wanted them to write and offer to sell it at double what had been paid for 't, while Bagby would n't part with it on any terms, because he said 't was needed by the 'Invincibles' to defend the town.
"I'm writing to Phil Hennion, begging him to intercede with his father and get me permission to bury my wife at Greenwood." "You would n't need to do no asking if you 'd only let me get the property back." "You 're right, man, and if it does nothing more, we'll perhaps frighten him into yielding us that much."
There stand the precious pair who have done more to foment disloyalty than any other two men in the county." It is needless to say that Mr. Meredith was pointing at Squire Hennion and Bagby, who, more curiously than wisely, had lingered at the tavern.
"How now!" cried the squire. "Hast been listening, fellow?" "I did not like to interrupt," said Charles, drily. "I sent for ye, because I'm told ye've been inciting rebellion against the king." The man smiled. "'T is little inciting they need," he answered. "Is 't true that ye've been drilling them?" demanded the squire. "Ask Phil Hennion," replied the servant. "What mean ye?"
Running over the pile of currency, he sorted out some fifty notes, then taking a sheet of paper, he began a letter. Before the earl had finished what he was writing, he was again interrupted, and the new-comer proved to be Major Hennion, clothed in an old suit of butternut-coloured linen.
I will order you a pack and a stock of such things as are appropriate from the public stores, and you shall at once be rowed across the river and must make your way as best you can northward to New York. Dost understand?" "Ay, my Lord," replied Major Hennion, his hand already on the door-latch.
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