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Brandon, though deprecating the presence of the troops in Boston, determined to be courteous to the representatives of his majesty; Admiral Montague, who came in his gig rowed by six sailors from his flagship, Romney; William Molineux and John Rowe, merchants; Richard Dana and Edmund Quincy, magistrates; John Adams, a young lawyer; honored citizens and their wives; Master Lovell; and Tom's classmate, Roger Stanley, who had walked from Lexington in the early morning.
"Now, is it not strange," thought Robin, with his usual shrewdness, "is it not strange that the confession of an empty pocket should outweigh the name of my kinsman, Major Molineux? Oh, if I had one of those grinning rascals in the woods, where I and my oak sapling grew up together, I would teach him that my arm is heavy though my purse be light!"
When he met the tenants on their first arrival he was accompanied by a locksmith and a painter and glazier, very convenient folks, as he remarked. The lessee was at liberty to make improvements; but if the unhappy man did so, little Molineux thought night and day of how he could dislodge him and relet the improved appartement on better terms.
"As brave as he was honest hearted," added a second, "you say Grantham, that he forgave us all our nonsense." "He did, Molineux. He declared he could not bear resentment against you long. But still, I fear, he could not so easily forget.
"Captain Molineux gentlemen!" resumed Raymond with greater emphasis. "He is getting warm on the subject," observed Middlemore. "Have a care Molineux, that the butt does not CHURN until in the end it becomes the BUTTER." "Ha! ha! ha!" vociferated St. Clair, "good, excellent, the best you ever made, Middlemore."
"Pretty mistress," for I may call her so with a good conscience thought the shrewd youth, since I know nothing to the contrary, "my sweet pretty mistress, will you be kind enough to tell me whereabouts I must seek the dwelling of my kinsman, Major Molineux?"
"I hope," said Captain Molineux with a smile, "your principal will think as you do, for should he decline the meeting, nothing will afford more satisfaction to myself." Both Grantham and Middlemore looked their utter surprise at the language thus used by Captain Molineux, but neither of them spoke. Grantham, most sincerely do I make it.
Like all Parisians, Molineux had the lust of dominating; he craved the share of sovereignty which is exercised more or less by every one, even a porter, over a greater or lesser number of victims, over wife, children, tenants, clerks, horses, dogs, monkeys, to whom they send, on the rebound, the mortifications they have endured in the higher spheres to which they aspired.
"'Well, then, Will; in the first place, I resigned the office of the Advocate-General, which I held from the crown, that produced me how much do you think? 'A great deal, no doubt, said Molineux. 'Shall we say two hundred sterling a year? 'Ay, more I believe, said Molineux. 'Well, let it be two hundred; that for ten years, is two thousand.
Then followed seizures, law-suits, costs, and the whole judicial array set in motion with the rapidity of what the head's-man calls the "mechanism." Molineux granted neither grace nor time; his heart was a callus in the direction of a lease.
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