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Updated: May 17, 2025
Next to the cane-chair was Hannah's mahogany bed, which had been stripped. On the bed lay a massive oaken coffin, and, accurately fitted into the coffin, lay the withered remains of Meshach's slave.
Steeple-top! Three cheers for old Meshach's hat!" With a minute's irresolution, as if hesitating to go through the crowd, Milburn turned into the main street, crossed it, and continued down the opposite sidewalk, on the same side with his domicile, the jeers and jests still continuing.
The house, which Meshach's grandfather, first of his line to emerge from the grey mass of the proletariat, had ruined himself to build, was a six-roomed dwelling of honest workmanship in red brick and tile, with a beautiful pillared doorway and fanlight in the antique taste. It had cost two hundred pounds, and was the monument of a life's ambition.
'Oh, do, uncle! she was about to say eagerly, but she thought in the same instant of John standing over Meshach's body, with the ice-cold cloth in his hand, and something, some dim instinct of a fundamental propriety, prevented her from uttering those words. 'I would like you to do whatever you think right, she answered with calmness. Meshach was evidently disappointed.
And Aunt Hannah wishes you many happy returns. Uncle Meshach came back from the Isle of Man last night. He gave me a note for you. Here it is. 'I can't take it now, my dear. Give it me afterwards. 'I think Uncle Meshach's a horrid old thing! said Ethel. 'My dear girl! Why? 'Oh! I do. I'm glad he's only father's uncle and not ours. I do hate that name. Fancy being called Meshach!
Have I turned o'er two pages at once? And so he continued. Twemlow's heart began to beat heavily as Meshach's eyes met his.
The next thing you will be walking through Baltimore on your bridal tour, followed by a mob of small boys, to see Meshach's old steeple-top hat. Then I shall feel for you, Vesta." The cruel blow struck home.
'No, no, Leonora intervened, 'you had better take him upstairs at once, to Ethel and Milly's bedroom. The procession, undignified and yet impressive, came to a halt, and Carpenter, who was holding Meshach's feet, glanced with canine anxiety from his master to his mistress. 'But look here, Nora, John began. 'Yes, father, upstairs, said Rose, cutting him short.
But long before that Leonora was rich. Uncle Meshach had died and left her the Myatt fortune for life, with remainder to the three girls absolutely in equal shares. Fred was the executor and trustee, and Fred's own share of the bounty was a total remission of Meshach's loan to him.
At the old aristocratic homes on the Wye River, more scowls than smiles were bestowed on the eccentric parvenu; and at Chestertown, where originated the Peales who drew this hat into their museum, the boys burned tar-barrels on the market space, and marched, in hats of brown loaf-sugar wrappers, like Meshach's, before the dwelling of Vesta's host.
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