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"There can be no necessity of my presence at an interview between Alderman Van Beverout and his nephew." The justly-mortified Patroon bowed ceremoniously to the equally disappointed burgher, and left the room the moment he had done speaking.
"I am not aware of a single privilege that any patroon of whom, by the way, there no longer exists one, except in name or any landlord, possesses over any one of his fellow-citizens." "Do you call it no privilege for a man to hold all the land there may happen to be in a township? I call that a great privilege; and such as no man should have in a free country.
The patroon turned on him enraged, but the latter without noticing his master's displeasure, exclaimed hurriedly: "The anti-renters are coming!" The actress uttered a slight cry and stepped toward the window, when she was drawn back by an irresistible force. "Pardon me," said a hard voice, from which all passing compunction had vanished. "Be kind enough to come with me."
It would not surprise me to hear that the prediction of the Poughkeepsie fortune-teller should be fulfilled!" "And what is your real opinion, Alderman Van Beverout, of the different mysterious events we have witnessed?" demanded the Patroon, in a manner to prove that the interest he took in the subject, completely smothered any displeasure he might otherwise have felt at so harsh a prophecy.
Our grandmothers were cousins, and there should be charities in the same blood." "I could not wish to press my suit," returned the Patroon, "when the lady has given so direct a hint that it is disagreeable " "Hint me no hints! Do you call this caprice of a moment, this trifling, as the captain here would call it, with the winds and tides, a hint!
A musty smell pervaded the apartment, for Mynheer, the Patroon, had lived so closely to himself that he had shut out both air and sunlight from his rooms. The flickering glare fell upon the young actress standing, hand upon her heart, listening with bated breath, and Mauville, with ominous expression, brooding over that chance which sent the lease-holders to the manor on that night of nights.
The settlements resembled lordships in the Netherlands, and every one who planted a colony of fifty souls, possessed the absolute property of the lands he colonized, and became Patroon, or Lord of the Manor. Very little attention was given to education, and the colonists were not permitted to make cotton, woollen, or linen cloth, for fear of injury to the monopolists of the Dutch manufactures.
In the year 1661, the Company purchased of Melyn, the patroon, for about five hundred dollars, all his rights to lands on Staten Island. Thus the whole island became the property of the Company. Grants of lands were immediately issued to individuals. The Waldenses, and the Huguenots from Rochelle in France, were invited to settle upon the island.
The spectacle was pretty, even beautiful; at every lady's cover lay a gift from the patroon, a crystal bosom-glass, mounted in silver filigree, filled with roses in scented water; and, at the sight, a gust of hand-clapping swept around the table, like the rattle of December winds through dry palmettos.
The latter's face expressed surprise, not altogether of an agreeable nature, at the encounter, but he immediately regained his composure. "Ah, Monsieur Saint-Prosper," he observed easily, "I little thought to see you here." "Nor I you!" said the other bluntly. The patroon gazed in seeming carelessness from the soldier to the young girl.
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