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As a final result of our summer's deliberation we leased a house at Eighty-sixth Street and West End Avenue and by the first of October had become settled in our new home; the horses we took with us but the ponies were sold. The children had outgrown them. "Redstone" we closed for the winter.
Villiers went back exultant to Fort Duquesne, burning on his way the buildings of Gist's settlement and the storehouse at Redstone Creek. Not an English flag now waved beyond the Alleghanies. The Signal of Battle The defeat of Washington was a heavy blow to the Governor, and he angrily ascribed it to the delay of the expected reinforcements.
'Pemberley is a very pretty place, I went on, stopping to pick a little piece of sweet-brier that attracted me by its sweetness: 'it is very pleasant to walk there through the Redstone lanes. There is a fine view over the down, and at four o'clock, for example 'What about four o'clock? he demanded: and now there was a little excitement in his manner.
He was above objecting to the shop; and whereas Clement carefully avoided the public precincts, he was often there, hunting up books, reading newspapers, gossiping with Mr. Froggatt or with Redstone, and always ensuring himself a welcome by the free bright sweetness of his manner and his amusing talk.
While there we looked back in the register at a sketch made by my friend and architect, Charlie Fitch. He and his wife were included with our guests on that occasion, and after asking me to allow him to register the party he filled a page with an artistic sketch of "Redstone" with the drag in the foreground.
The operation and consequent advance in the market made a difference in the value of our holdings of seventy thousand dollars. All through the summer of 1893 we had been discussing the advisability of leaving "Redstone" and taking up a permanent residence in New York.
'I declare, persisted Bernard, 'Nares says it is coming as sure as fate; for his governor, and Jackman, and Collis are going to stump up the old Pursuivant with their new Bexley Tribune, and Redstone is to be sub-editor. 'The black-hearted rascal! cried Lance, bounding on his feet in a rage. 'He ought to be kicked out of the shop this instant!
But, whether as Redstone or Brownsville, it was, in its day, like most "jumping off" places on the edge of civilization, a veritable Sodom. Wrote good old John Pope, in his Journal of 1790, and in the same strain scores of other veracious chroniclers: "At this Place we were detained about a Week, experiencing every Disgust which Rooks and Harpies could excite."
'Bald, sir, bald, he said, with such a face. "Yes, Mr. Underwood," even good old Froggy said, when he saw me looking rather blue, "you and I may know what good taste and simplicity is; but if we sent out the Pursuivant with no mouth-filling words in it, we should be cut out with some low paper in no time among the farmers and mechanics." 'Is he so led by Mr. Redstone? asked Wilmet.
Washington, who had large landed interests on the Ohio, knew Redstone well; and here George Rogers Clark set out upon flatboats, with his rough-and-ready Virginia volunteers, to capture the country north of the Ohio for the American arms one of the least known, but most momentous conquests in history. Early in the nineteenth century, Redstone became Brownsville.
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