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He stared at her without answering. "That little remembrance for old time's sake. Don't you recollect?" "No," said Quarrier. "Why, Howard! Didn't you promise me all sorts of things when I wanted to go to your friend Mr. Siward, and explain that it was not his fault I got into the Patroons Club?
We have clothing befitting, when we choose to wear it; we were schooled in Albany; we are people of quality, like the other patroons; we lack nothing for servants or tenants what ails them all, to nudge and stare and grin when we pass?" "Mr. Livingston says our deportment shocks all," murmured Cecile. "The Schuylers will have none of us," added Harry, plaintively "and I admire them, too."
To give the argument any weight, not as law, not as morals, but as mere expediency, it must be shown that the patroons would not let these mill-seats at as low rents as any one else; and my opinion is that they would let them at rents of not half the amount that would be asked, were they the property of so many individuals, scattered up and down the country.
One day in May near the end of my two years in Cobleskill Judge Westbrook gave me two writs to serve on settlers in the neighborhood of Baldwin Heights for non-payment of rent. He told me what I knew, that there was bitter feeling against the patroons in that vicinity and that I might encounter opposition to the service of the writs.
What do you think of that?" Plank's phlegmatic features flushed. "I'm more obliged to you than I can say," he began, but Mortimer silenced him with a gesture: "Don't interrupt. I'm going to put you through The Patroons Club by April. That's thirty yards through the centre; d'ye see, you dunderheaded Dutchman? It's solid gain, and it's our ball.
No, it had been anything but wise to speak to her of Lois. But now I meant to mention Lois to Mrs. Bleecker. We had seated ourselves on the sun-crisped Indian grass, and for a while I let her chatter of Guy Park and our pleasant acquaintance there, and of Albany, too, where we had met sometimes at the Ten Broecks, the Schuylers, and the Patroons.
These were two: one a man of piety, who prayed with the tenants when they complained of their lot; the other, Mauville, upon whom he had never set eyes. When the earliest patroons had made known to the West India Company their intention of planting colonies in New Netherland, they had issued attractive maps to promote their colonization projects.
These limits would include but a small portion of the territory which the patroons claimed by right of purchase from the Indians. The authorities were not prepared to act upon this question without instructions from Holland. Stuyvesant would admit of no delay.
"A friend of yours?" he said, briefly. "I never saw him before," she answered with flashing eyes. "Perhaps he is the lord of the manor and thought I was one of his subjects." "There are lords in this country, then?" "Lords or patroons, they are called," she replied, her face still flushed.
Many people at once became eager to win such a prize, and very soon there were little settlements all along the shores of the Hudson. The men who received these huge estates were called patroons, which is the same word as our English patron, and they had power not unlike the feudal lords of old time.
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