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While Miss Newville was serving other guests, with Berinthia and Miss Shrimpton Robert walked the garden once more, the great shaggy watch-dog trotting in advance, as if they were guests to be honored by an escort. The afternoon was waning. Guests were leaving, and it was time for Berinthia and Robert to take their departure. "Oh, you are not going now.
Once more there were happy homes in Boston, that upon Copp's Hill, where Berinthia and Abraham Duncan cared for the father and mother; that where Tom and Mary Shrimpton-Brandon made the passing days pleasant to Abel Shrimpton, loyal no longer to King George, but to the flag of the future republic; and that other home, where Major Robert Walden and his loving wife, with queenly grace, dispensed unstinted hospitality, not only to those distinguished among their fellow-men, but to the poor and needy, impoverished by the long and weary struggle for independence of the mother land.
Never any fellow was of a bolder and of a more audacious spirit than he, and after he had once associated himself with Drummond, they quickly forced William Shrimpton, who was Ferdinando's cousin, to commit one or two facts with him, and afterwards he would never suffer him to be quiet. On Hounslow Heath, it seems, Shrimpton robbed a man of a horse, a silver watch and some money.
The feet of Mary Shrimpton were keeping time to the ticking of the clock. "Why can't we have a dance?" she asked. "Why not?" all responded. "I'll see if we can find Uncle Brutus," said Tom. Uncle Brutus was the white-haired old negro who did chores about the tavern. "Yes, massa, I can play a jig, quickstep, minuet, and reel.
In his declining years all his property was to slip through his fingers, and he was to totter in penury to his grave. "I shall enlist in the service of the king and fight 'em," said John Coffin, who had shown his loyalty by accompanying General Howe to the battle of Bunker Hill. "And I hope you'll have a chance to put a bullet through the carcass of Sam Adams," said Mr. Shrimpton.
However it were, he continued for a considerable space after the two Shrimptons and he robbed together, committing sometimes nine or ten robberies in one night, until they were all three apprehended, and William Shrimpton became an evidence against them. Ferdinando Shrimpton, the other malefactor, was a person well educated, though his father was one of the greatest highwaymen in England.
Shrimpton," she said coldly. "But your lover has deceived you. He was staying down in Surrey with the girl, Miss Lambert, as his fellow-guest." "I know that," was Dorise's reply. "But I have since come to the conclusion that my surmise my jealousy if you like to call it so is unfounded." "Ah! then you refuse to assist justice?" "No, I do not.
Through the years Abel Shrimpton, unreconciled to life's changes, has been cursing Samuel Adams and John Hancock for having led the people to rebel against the king, not seeing that Divine Providence was using them as instruments to bring about a new era in human affairs.
Several visiting and resident clergymen testified that they had not seen a drunken man in the Massachusetts Colony in many years. The following quotation will show how rare was drunkenness and how abhorred. Judge Sewall wrote in 1686: "Mr. Shrimpton and others came in a coach from Roxbury about nine o'clock or past, singing as they came, being inflamed with drink.
Shrimpton wished to see her. She started at the name. It was the detective inspector from Scotland Yard who had called upon her on a previous occasion. A few moments afterwards he was shown in, a tall figure in a rough tweed suit. "I really must apologize, Miss Ranscomb, for disturbing you, but I have heard news of Mr. Henfrey. He has been in Marseilles. Have you heard from him?"
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