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I need not allude to the Pomeroy business to you, for notwithstanding your public denials I cannot but consider that you were as deeply implicated in that disgraceful affair as he was. I note what you say about the admiration you had for my brother. I wish I could honestly say that I shared that admiration.
There was a wild rush of feet in the hallway overhead, and a shower of light parcels filled the air, pelting the sober figures from right and left, as a chorus of merry voices screamed joyously, "Merry, merry Christmas!" "You thought we had gone home, didn't you?" "But we haven't and we aren't going to! Miss Pomeroy said we might stay." "And the other girls left those packages for jokes.
But in the main the disorder of the scene centred in the small table and the three men standing round it; a lighted group, islanded in the shadows of the hall. Mr. Pomeroy waited with impatience until Mr. Thomasson lowered his glass. Then, 'Let us have the story, he said. 'A guinea to a China orange the fool is tricking us. The tutor shook his head, and turned to Lord Almeric.
He found his host and the tutor sitting together in the parlour, in the middle of a game of shilling hazard; which they were playing, the former with as much enjoyment and the latter with as much good-humour as consisted with the fact that Mr. Pomeroy was losing, and Mr. Thomasson played against his will. The weather had changed for the worse since morning.
He made his will in the camp at Albany, and left a legacy to found the school which has since become Williams College. His relative, Stephen Williams, was chaplain of his regiment, and his brother Thomas was its surgeon. Seth Pomeroy, gunsmith at Northampton, who, like Titcomb, had seen service at Louisbourg, was its lieutenant-colonel.
Then 'Lord save us! he ejaculated, staring at them the empty bottle in one hand, the decanter in the other. 'Why, the road's alive to-night! I beg your honour's pardon, I am sure, and yours, sir! I thought 'twas one of the gentlemen that arrived, awhile ago come down to see why supper lagged. Squire Pomeroy, to be sure! What can I do for you, gentlemen?
For his associates, Congress appointed Artemas Ward, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Israel Putnam as major-generals, and Seth Pomeroy, Richard Montgomery, David Wooster, William Heath, Joseph Spencer, John Thomas, John Sullivan, and Nathanael Greene as brigadiers. Horatio Gates received the appointment of adjutant-general, with the rank of brigadier.
"And a very handsome retreat they made," writes Pomeroy; "and so continued till they came within about three quarters of a mile of our camp. This was the last fire our men gave our enemies, which killed great numbers of them; they were seen to drop as pigeons." So ended the fray long known in New England fireside story as the "bloody morning scout."
Dorward's answer, but this Hacking refused. "If a telegram came to our house, everybody would want to read it. Why can't it be sent to you?" Mark sighed for his fellow-conspirator's stupidity. To this useless clod he had presented a valuable bat. "All right," he said impatiently, "you needn't do anything more except tell Pomeroy what time he's to be at the corner of the road to-morrow."
'Your lordship has not won her yet, was the churlish answer. 'But she has said it, I tell you. She said she'd have me. 'She won't be the first woman has altered her mind, nor the last, Mr. Pomeroy retorted with an oath.
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