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Then there came a day in Albany when matters mended over night, and the Patroon most kindly commanded portraits of himself and family. It started our brief prosperity. "Other and thrifty Dutchmen now began to bargain for their portraits. We took an old house on Pearl Street, and I was sent to school at Mrs. Pardee's Academy for young ladies as a day pupil, returning home at evening.
But here be'e Patroon, who know how to tell'e Al'erman such t'ing better than a poor color' slave."
This universal panic pervaded the Dutch settlements. The wildest stories were circulated at the firesides of the lonely settlers. Anxiety and terror pervaded all the defenceless hamlets. DeVrees, rambling one day with his gun upon his shoulder, met an Indian "who was very drunk." Coming up to the patroon, the Indian patted him upon the shoulder, in token of friendship, saying,
The Patroon himself was a sightly, well-dressed gentleman, wearing a scarlet coat, flowing wig, and cocked hat; and I observed that the handle of his sword was of solid silver. But my father wore a sword with a solid silver handle, too, a present from my grandfather when the former first entered the army.
Without wishing to address the actress and thereby risk a public rebuff it was, nevertheless, impossible for the hot-blooded Southerner to submit to peremptory restraint. Who had made the soldier his taskmaster? He read Saint-Prosper's purpose and was not slow to retaliate. "If I am not mistaken, yonder is our divinity of the lane," said the patroon softly. "Permit me." And he strove to pass.
The right spirit is in you. I hope you're no patroon no aristocrat?" "I don't know vat isht badroon, or vat isht arishtocrat." "No! You are a happy man in your ignorance. A patroon is a nobleman who owns another man's land; and an aristocrat is a body that thinks himself better than his neighbours, friend."
Perhaps you are seeking the old patroon manor there? They say the heir is expected any day" gazing fixedly at the young man "at least, the anti-renters have received information he is coming and are preparing " The sprightly guest threw up his hands. "The trunks! the trunks!" he exclaimed in accents of despair. "Look at the disorder of my attire!
At the appointed hour, the land baron, freshly shaven, not a jaded line in his face, and elastic in step, appeared on the front porch before which his carriage was waiting. "When shall I expect you back?" asked Oly-koeks, who had reappeared at the sound of his master's footsteps. "Any time or never!" laughed the patroon, springing into the vehicle.
The laborers on these large Dutch estates were generally poor peasants, who had been brought over by the landed proprietors, passage free. They were thus virtually for a number of years, slaves of the patroon, serving him until, by their labor, they had paid for their passage money. In the language of the day they were called Redemptioners.
Van Rensselaer came from Albany to heal the breach with father. We danced and had games. He is a good young man, this patroon and patriot. Listen, dear: he permitted all his tenants to join the army of Gates, cancelled their rent-rolls during their service, and promised to provide for their families. It will take a fortune, but his deeds are better than his words.
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