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"You're not the stronger!" cried Sam and Harry, in the same breath. "I," repeated Dorothy, serenely, "being not only older than Ruyven by a year, but also stronger than you all together, kept the watch, spite of your silly clamor and mean to keep it." "Then we matched shillings for it!" cried Cecile. "It was only fair; we all discovered it," explained Dorothy.
"You spoke of me as Captain Ormond," I said, turning with a smile to Dorothy. "Oh, it's all one," she said, gayly; "if you're not a captain now, you will be soon, I'll wager but I'm not to talk of that before the children " "You may talk of it before me," said Ruyven. "Harry, take Benny and Sam and Cecile out of earshot " "Pooh!" cried Harry, "I know all about Sir John's new regiment "
Ruyven hunting about Tryon County for a Hessian to knock him in the head; Cecile sitting in rapture with every cornet or ensign who'll notice her; the children yelling for Lafayette and Washington; Dorothy, here, playing at Donna Quixota, and you starting for Stillwater to teach that fool, Gates, how to catch Burgoyne. Set an ass to catch an ass eh, George?
At the house door they parted company with me, all save Ruyven and Dorothy. The one marched off to summon Cato; the other stood silent, her head a little on one side, contemplating a spot of sunlight on the dusty floor. "About young Walter Butler," she began, absently; "be not too short and sharp with him, cousin." "I hope I shall have no reason to be too blunt with my own kin," I said.
She leaned back, one slender hand playing with the stem of her glass; and the flush faded from her face like an afterglow from a serene horizon. "I fear," she said, "you of the South wear a polish we lack." "Best mirror your faults in it while you have the chance," said Harry, promptly. "We lack polish even Walter Butler and Guy Johnson sneer at us under father's nose," said Ruyven.
"Why not?" retorted Harry. "We are!" "Oh, Lud!" drawled Cecile, languidly fanning her flushed face, "I would I had drunk small-beer Harry, if you kick me again I'll pinch!" "It's a shame," observed Ruyven, "that gentlemen of our age may not take a glass of wine together in comfort." "Your age!" laughed Dorothy. "Cousin Ormond is twenty-three, silly, and I'm eighteen or close to it."
Be quiet!" said Dorothy. Benny lay back in his chair and beat upon the table, howling defiance at his sister through Harry's shouts of laughter. "Silence!" cried Dorothy, rising, flushed and furious. "Is this a corn-feast, that you all sit yelping in a circle? Ruyven, hold that door, and see that no one follows us " "What for?" demanded Ruyven, rising.
When the Van Rensselaers are too good for the Putnams of Tribes Hill I'll eat my spurs! and then he laughed till he cried." "They never came again; nobody of quality ever came; nobody ever comes," said Ruyven. "Excepting the Johnsons and the Butlers," corrected Sammy. "And then everybody geths tight; they were here lath night and Uncle Varick is sthill abed," said little Benny, innocently.
Don't you know that when people want to wed they ask each other's permission to ask each other's father, and then their fathers ask each other, and then they ask each " "Other!" cried Dorothy, laughing deliciously. "Oh, Ruyven, Ruyven, you certainly will be the death of me!" "All the same," said Harry, sullenly, "our cousin wishes to wed you."
Hoping on against hope, the director now sent Counsellor de Decker, Secretary Van Ruyven, Burgomaster Steenwyck, and "Schepen" Cousseau with a letter to Nicolls stating that, as he felt bound "to stand the storm," he desired if possible to arrange on accommodation. But the English commander merely declared, "To-morrow I will speak with you at Manhattan."
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