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This she placed under the room in which her master and mistress slept, laid a long train, and dropped a coal on it. She had barely time to escape to the farm-house before the explosion took place, shattering the stately mansion into fragments. Saltonstall and his wife were carried on their bed a considerable distance, happily escaping serious injury.
Saltonstall's favor; that, after having done so, it will be shown that, just before his death, he became aware of the existence of his son and heir, and actually had an interview with him; that he visited Mrs. Saltonstall that evening, with the records of his son's identity and a memorandum of his interview in his pocket-book; and that, an hour after leaving the house, he was foully murdered.
My grandfather had earned much commendation from his superiors. He had sailed two cruises as master's mate of the Cabot, and was then serving as master of the Trumbull, Captain Saltonstall. This was shortly after that frigate had captured the two British transports off New York. Captain Jones has been at pains to mention in his letters the services rendered him by Mr.
Saltonstall took her in quite as if she was one of the family, and really was very sweet to her. And the old gentleman was fatherly. That seemed to settle it for her, rather the fact that sank deeper in her mind every day that Cousin Chilian wished her to marry and that this young man was his preference.
Acting with the approval of the Earl of Warwick and in conjunction with a group of Puritan friends Thomas Dudley, Isaac Johnson, Richard Saltonstall, and John Humphrey, he decided in the summer of 1629 to leave England forever, and in September he joined the Massachusetts Bay Company.
She had assumed an air of such pretty earnestness and passion; her satin face was illuminated as by some softly sensuous light within more bewildering than mere color, that Garnier, all devoted eyes and courteous blandishment, broke out: "But this curse must fall harmlessly before the incarnation of blessing; Miss Saltonstall has no more to fear than the angels.
Then there had been the embargo, which for a while closed the ports. But the town went on improving. Fortunes had been made and now were being spent. But much of the shipping lay idle. Yet the social life went on, there was marrying and giving in marriage. Of course, there was some gossip about the Saltonstall fiasco.
He continued until he had freed the luckless flounce, conscious of the soft fire of her eyes on his head and neck. "There," he said, rising, and encountering her glance. As she did not speak, he continued: "You are thinking, Miss Saltonstall, that you have seen me before, are you not? Well you HAVE; I asked you the road to San Jose one morning when I was tramping by your hedge."
It seemed rather odd that at eight o'clock not a soul had come. At home they would be beginning the fun by this time. Then a sudden influx of girls, some she had met before two or three young men and then young Saltonstall, who had been counting the moments the last half hour. "I am so glad to see you. It was such a surprise." He could see it in her face, hear it in her voice.
John P. Kennedy, of Maryland, an accomplished scholar and popular author, was Chairman of the Committee on Commerce; Edward Stanley, of North Carolina, was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs; Leverett Saltonstall, of the Committee on Manufactures; indeed, there was not a Committee of the House that did not have a first-class man as its chairman.
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