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Four men, of a highly correct appearance, dressed in quiet good taste, who would have passed in the Broadway muster for merchants of the severest practical variety, entered the room. They nodded in the most gentlemanly manner to the coroner, and gave a friendly recognition to young Myndert.
I need not tell you, sir, what a joy he was to us in his infancy; for you, too, I presume, are a husband and a father." The old gentleman was so wrapped up in his own thoughts, that he did not seem to notice the reply. He again braced himself in the chair, as if he would, by that act, gather strength to proceed. "Of course, I called the child Myndert.
Though a celibite in his own person, Myndert had not now to learn that the infant god as often does his mischief through this quiet agency, as in any other manner. He became, therefore, mute in his turn, watching the slow movement of the periagua with as much assiduity as if he saw his own image on the water.
"Have I done well, Sir, in permitting a subject of Queen Anne to quit us at this emergency?" he demanded, observing that either the phlegm or the self-command of Myndert rendered him proof to scrutiny. "The lad may be termed contraband of war," returned the Alderman, without moving a muscle; "an article that will command a better price in a quiet than in a turbulent market.
"That has he!" eagerly exclaimed Myndert "I've known the gentleman raving as a bear that has lost its cub, when my niece has smiled, in church, for instance, though it were only in answer to a nod from an old lady. Philosophy and composure, Patroon!
I have to make up for the loss by adjournin' early in the arternoon. Ha! ha! Now, Myndert, my boy, rush her through. You don't know anythin' about the murder, I s'pose. You were somewhere else on the fatal night, of course and I can guess where. At Brown's, eh?" Brown's was a notorious gambling house on Broadway. "Exactly, Harry.
"What news from the Canadas? Is the Queen dead, or has she restored the colony to the United Provinces?" "Mam'selle Alide!" exclaimed, or rather groaned, François. "The poor dumb beast! " muttered Euclid. The knives and the forks fell from the hands of Myndert and his guest, as it were by a simultaneous paralysis.
His eye leered askance, seeming to wish to play around the person of his master, as, it will be seen, his language endeavored to play around his understanding. The hands crushed the crown of a woollen hat between their fingers, and one of his feet described semicircles with its toe, by performing nervous evolutions on its heel. "Well!" ejaculated Myndert, regarding each in turn.
Anticipating that he would have trouble with the Faculty, I selected a college which was distinguished for its means of learning, and was jet very lenient in its discipline. Myndert easily obtained admission, and at once took high rank in his class. Knowledge came so easy to him, that he had plenty of leisure, and I feared that his old vicious habits would break out again.
For the future peace of his venerable friend, and for the good of society, he could have conscientiously recommended two things: First, the immediate hanging of Myndert Van Quintem, jr. Second, his imprisonment for life in a penitentiary warranted to be strong enough to hold him.
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