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'Shall we join company in the avenue of trees which leads from Petersham to Ham House, and settle the exact spot when we arrive there? said Mr Westwood. To this the captain also assented. After a few other preliminaries, equally brief, and having settled the road each party should take to avoid suspicion, they separated.
Governor Hancock presided, gorgeous in crimson velvet and finest laces, while about the room sat many browned and weather-beaten farmers, among whom were at least eighteen who hardly a year ago had marched over the pine-clad mountain ridges of Petersham, under the banner of the rebel Shays. It was a wholesome no less than a generous policy that let these men come in and freely speak their minds.
It was excessively cold and our fingers began to grow numb very soon, and if anybody touched the iron part of his gun without the mittens he would leave a piece of skin behind. But you see we had just heard of General Lincoln's thirty-mile night march from Hadley to Petersham in even worse weather, and for the credit of Berkshire, we had to keep on if we froze to death.
He accompanied Lady Caroline Petersham and little Miss Ashe or 'the Pollard Ashe, as it pleases him to describe her. The ladies had just put on their last layer of rouge, 'and looked as handsome as crimson could make them. They proceed in a barge, a boat of French horns attending, and little Miss Ashe singing.
That evening, the squire was sitting by himself in the great dining room, occasionally sipping the glass of port, which John Petersham had poured out before he left the room. The curtains were drawn, and the candles lighted; for it was late in September, and the evenings were closing in fast; and the squire was puzzling over John Petersham's behaviour at dinner.
The sound of a car approaching at headlong speed reached my ears, and at the same moment I saw the headlights. "Hullo, there!" cried Gatton. "Blythe! Petersham!" The car stopped, and a cry came back: "We've lost him, sir!... and the Bell House is in flames!"
He enjoyed a visit to Petersham Villa it was almost the only house with whose inhabitants he was upon really easy and familiar terms, for he was by nature a shy and retiring man. He had got into the habit of confiding in cheerful Mrs. Leslie, but he seldom talked to Kate, who was too diffident to make him forget that he also was inclined to be shy.
On the 9th she sent a message to Burgoyne by Lord Petersham, his aide-de-camp, asking permission to depart. 'Though I was ready to believe, says Burgoyne, 'that patience and fortitude, in a supreme degree, were to be found, as well as every other virtue, under the most tender forms, I was astonished at this proposal.
He can hardly object to my seeing her sometimes, and if I know that she is well and happy, that is all I care for; and now the sooner it's over the better. Can she come up this evening?" "Surely she can," John Petersham said. "The squire dines at five. If you will bring her up at six, I will take her in to him."
To one lie, first class, extra quality and size; recommended milled satinet as broadcloth...................... 75 To purchasing bran new paper shirt collar or dickey, to set off gray Petersham..................................... 02 Standing on one leg three hours, to show off new-style strapped pants at 12 1/2 cents per leg per hour............. 37 1/2
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