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The structure, together with the servants' quarters adjoining, was burned down in December, 1835, and when the historian Lossing visited Mount Vernon in 1858 nothing remained of these buildings except bare walls crumbling to decay. Of the movable plants that had belonged to Washington there remained in 1858 only a lemon tree, a century plant and a sago palm, all of which have since died.
But, though he was pleased to make rather cynical fun of his son's political enthusiasm, esteeming it in a sense a diverting and therefore reprehensible pursuit for a business man, the elder Lossing had a sneaking pride in it, all the same. He liked to bring out Harry's political shrewdness. "Fancy, Margaret," says he, "whom do you think Harry has brought over to our side now?
Four volumes. HALLOWELL, A.D. James and Lucretia Mott; Life and Letters. JOHNSON, OLIVER. William Lloyd Garrison and his Times. LOSSING, BENSON J. Life of George Washington, a Biography, Military and Political. Three volumes. MATHER, COTTON. The Life and Death of the Reverend John Elliot who was the First Preacher of the Gospel to the Indians in America. The third edition carefully corrected.
"Well, I kin count four for him on wan seat," says the man, with a nod of his head toward the gay heap in the woman's lap, "barrin' I ain't on-vaygled into flinging some of thim to the young ladies!" Harry Lossing, in the seat behind with his mother and Mrs. Carriswood, giggled at this and whispered in the latter lady's ear, "That's Tommy's father and mother. My, aren't they excited, though!
Then he will bloom out in a social way, and marry a gentlewoman, and they will snub the old people who are so proud of him." "Well, we shall see," said Mrs. Lossing; "I think better things of Tommy. So does Harry." Part of the prophecy was to be speedily fulfilled.
Lossing, a little dubiously, but looking fondly at Harry's handsome face; "you know, somehow, all our dogs, no matter how properly they start in a kennel, end by being so hurt if we keep them there that they come into the house. And they are so large, it is like having a pet lion about." "These dogs, mother, shall never put a paw in the house."
'I can't come home with him, I fear; I must somehow see the ladies alone. You know the place, Dave, do you not? He won't stay late, you know. I was not greatly surprised to hear of Lossing in Washington Avenue, for we knew well enough that his first evening's visit would be to Miss Jenrys.
Lossing tells us that she would sometimes pass along their lines and get her cocked hat full of crowns. He also says the widow of General Hamilton told him she had often seen 'Captain Molly, as she was called, and described her as a red-haired, freckle-faced young Irish woman, with a handsome piercing eye." "Papa, did she wear a man's hat?" asked Grace.
I don't want Lossing to persuade Esther to commit herself; you know how, when she was a little mite, if Esther gave her word she kept it. I want you to promise me you won't let Esther be alone one second with young Lossing. She is going to-morrow, but there's your whist-party to-night; I suppose he's coming? And I want you to promise you won't let him have our address.
Carriswood is beginning to take the Honorable Thomas Fitzmaurice and his place in the world seriously, herself. THE Louders lived on the second floor, at the head of the stairs, in the Lossing Building.
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