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Updated: June 12, 2025
That afternoon, when Pollyooly was helping him pack his portmanteau for his journey to Buda-Pesth, the Honourable John Ruffin told her of the arrangement he had made with Hilary Vance, that she and the Lump should spend the time till his return at the studio at Chelsea.
"Ruffin is a terrible old fire-eater, I know," the Congressman admitted. "But Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most serious blow the South has received from the Abolitionists. And what makes it so difficult is that its appeal is not to reason. It is to sentiment. To the elemental emotions of the mob.
She vaguely tried to calculate the altitude of the pinnacle from which he must have looked down upon her. "I met a chump deh odder day way up in deh city," he said. "I was goin' teh see a frien' of mine. When I was a-crossin' deh street deh chump runned plump inteh me, an' den he turns aroun' an' says, 'Yer insolen' ruffin, he says, like dat.
Although I had passed her pursuers without fear, yet when Levi Coffin informed me that Ruffin, the greatest slave-hunter in the city, had just moved next door to Burgess, where I left Maria, my fears were almost equal to Maria's. "Laura, thou hast left thy fugitive with a good family, but in a poor place," said our venerable friend.
Pollyooly is making preparations to go with you," said the Honourable John Ruffin briskly. "She'll be here in a few minutes." He stepped aside for her to pass. She looked back down the staircase carefully and with the greatest caution; then she entered and went on tiptoe, noiselessly, down the passage into the sitting-room.
"Ruffin you here?" "General Lee," he began, "will you hear me for just one moment?" "Certainly." Lee sprang to his feet. "But how did you get into my lines I thought I was surrounded?" "I came out of Richmond with General Alexander's rear guard, sir, six days ago." "Oh, I see." "Ten years ago, General Lee, in your house, I predicted this war.
The significant interrogatory, on account of the manner in which it was put, was hailed by the boys with a shout of laughter. Ruffin continued "No; I guess you han't heerd ov that ar justice, since yur a stranger in these parts, an' a Britisher. You han't got sich a one among yur bigwigs, I reckin. He's the fellar that ain't a-goin' to keep you long in Chancery.
"Pray be seated," Lee invited. Ruffin seated himself on the couch and watched his host keenly. Lee took a cigar from the mantel and offered it. "A cigar, Ruffin?" "Thanks." "Now make yourself entirely at home, my good friend." The planter lighted the cigar, blew a long cloud of smoke and settled in his seat. "I'm glad to learn from Mrs.
The two men clasped hands and Ruffin spoke with deep emotion. "I am honored in your friendship, Colonel Lee. However I may differ with you about the Union, we agree on one thing, that the old Dominion is the noblest state on which the sun has ever shown!" Lee closed his eyes as if in prayer. "On that we are one.
They'd just time if they ran most of the way." "But the lawyer would only have to wire to Osterley to meet the train at Waterloo," said the Honourable John Ruffin. "I thought of that," said the duchess quickly. "I told her to leave the express at Salisbury, go on to Woking by a slow train, take a taxi from there to my old nurse's, Mrs. Simpson's, in Camden Town, and leave Marion with her."
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