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The shock of such an announcement was of course overwhelming. A few hours afterwards, Mrs Arbuthnot gave birth to a healthy male-child; but the young mother's life, assailed by fever, was for many days utterly despaired of for weeks held to tremble so evenly in the balance, that the slightest adverse circumstance might in a moment turn the scale deathward.
"The pope of Rome has given orders for a new St. Bartholomew," cried others. "We are to be massacred, man and male-child." Neither was this rumor wholly discredited; although the wiser class believed the governor's object somewhat less atrocious. His predecessor under the old charter, Bradstreet, a venerable companion of the first settlers, was known to be in town.
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