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Many readers of this page will no doubt remember with what precipitation the notorious Monro Adams made himself "scarce" in January, 1882, upon the discovery of the irregular Chase divorce, and others of the same kind fraudulently procured in Brooklyn.
'Life consists in knowing where to stop, and going a little further, once said H.H. Monro. Let us follow his advice and that of the Greeks. First, let us shove the desks against the wall and make ready for the dance." It had all been prepared beforehand. In a few minutes several hundred books had been dropped, several ink-pots lay smashed on the floor.
Monro emphasized his refusal by a general discharge of his cannon. The trenches were opened on the night of the fourth, a task of extreme difficulty, as the ground was covered by a profusion of half-burned stumps, roots, branches, and fallen trunks.
Seventeen cannon, great and small, besides several mortars and swivels, were mounted upon it; and a brave Scotch veteran, Lieutenant-Colonel Monro, of the thirty-fifth regiment, was in command. General Webb lay fourteen miles distant at Fort Edward, with twenty-six hundred men, chiefly provincials.
Montcalm kept it several days, till the English rampart was half battered down; and then, after saluting his enemy with a volley from all his cannon, he sent it with a graceful compliment to Monro. It was Bougainville who carried it, preceded by a drummer and a flag.
Montcalm assembled them, told them the terms, and persuaded them to promise obedience. He took care to keep all strong drink out of their way, and asked Monro to destroy all the liquor in the British fort and camp. In spite of these precautions a dire tragedy followed.
Yet, while her father's words made her soul revolt, his appearance melted her heart, as she caught it, half turned away from her, neither looking straight at Miss Monro, nor at anything materially visible. His hollow sunken eye seemed to Ellinor to have a vision of the dead man before it.
She went quickly upstairs, and took a strong dose of sal-volatile, even while she heard Miss Monro calling to her. "My dear, who was that gentleman that has been closeted with you in the drawing-room all this time?" And then, without listening to Ellinor's reply, she went on: "Mrs. Jackson's house that Mr. Dunster was, for he never came home last night at all.
"Go away, there's a good young man," said Miss Monro, all the more pressing to hurry him out by the front door, because she was afraid of his emotion overmastering him, and making him noisy in his demonstrations. "Yes, I will write; I will write, never fear!" and she bolted the door behind him, and was thankful.
"Will you tell me all you know all you have heard about my you know what?" "Miss Monro was my informant at least at first it was in the Times the day before I left. Miss Monro says it could only have been done in a moment of anger if the old servant is really guilty; that he was as steady and good a man as she ever knew, and she seems to have a strong feeling against Mr.
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