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The governor informed them that he had just received a letter from the proprietors, as Penn's heirs were called, giving to the province five thousand pounds to aid in its defence, on condition that the money should be accepted as a free gift, and not as their proportion of any tax that was or might be laid by the Assembly.
He had inherited a valuable friendship with Charles II and his heir, the Duke of York. This friendship rested on the solid fact that Penn's father, the admiral, had rendered such signal assistance in restoring Charles and the whole Stuart line to the throne.
"Is that you, Penn?" Arthur struggled to reconcile the young man in his mind with the man in front of him. Penn's hair was thinning. He needed a shave. "Indeed so. You are looking a bit crazed, Arthur. You need a drink to acclimatize." "I just got here." Penn seemed to know that. "I maybe you're right. Will you join me?" "I could force down a single-malt." "Lead the way.
Penn's success must have been owing to great interest made on his behalf; for both the Duke of York, by his attorney, and Lord Baltimore opposed him. As proprietors of territory bounding on the tract which he asked for, and as having been already annoyed by the conflict of charters granted in the New World, they were naturally unfairly biassed.
"What does that signify?" cried Fleeming. "We are not here to be happy, but to be good." From Fairbairn's and Manchester, Fleeming passed to a railway survey in Switzerland, and thence again to Mr. Penn's at Greenwich, where he was engaged as draughtsman.
Philadelphia windows and window frames during the Colonial period were not so much a development as a perpetuation of the initial types, although of course some minor changes and improvements were made with passing years. From the very beginning sliding Georgian sashes were the rule. Penn's house has them and so have all the other historic homes and buildings of this vicinity now remaining.
Penn," she said civilly. "She gave up this house nearly two years ago, and I've only been here six months. It was my sister who took the house after Mrs. Penn." "Then there is no hope of getting the information I want," sighed Elsie; "unless any of Mrs. Penn's lodgers are here still." "No, ma'am," said the widow again; "they are all new-comers. I am sorry that I can't help you."
For Old Philadelphia is like a dream, and there will always linger about it the youthful tenderness of William Penn's plan and his life story. And then, to the chagrin of New York, came the transference of the Capital to Philadelphia.
It was a shady easy-going place, with pleasant gardens about the houses, and something of Quaker repose and substantial thrift lent a charm to its busy life. Men were still living who could remember when unbroken forests held the place of Penn's city: "And the streets still reëcho the names of the trees of the forest, As if they fain would appease the Dryads whose haunts they molested."
It was sad that Penn did not live to see that day, which he had so hoped for in his last years, when, with ocean commerce free from depredations, the increasing money returns from his province would obviate all necessity of selling the government to the Crown. With all debts paid and prosperity increasing, Penn's sons became very rich men.
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