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For him the dark curtain has been lifted. The weaknesses, the follies, and the repulsive mental and personal idiosyncrasies which may have kept him without the sphere of our respect and sympathy have now fallen off, and he stands radiant with the transfiguration of eternity, God's child, our recognized and acknowledged brother. Dr. Singletary is dead.
It was in the dreadful days of the Salem Witchcraft delusion that one Jonathan Singletary, being then in the prison at Ipswich, gave his testimony as to certain fearful occurrences, a great noise, as of many cats climbing, skipping, and jumping, of throwing about of furniture, and of men walking in the chambers, with crackling and shaking as if the house would fall upon him.
'Well, said I, 'that debt's paid; but there's one debt we can never pay as long as we live. 'I know it, says she; 'but Dr. Singletary wants no better reward for his kindness than to see us live happily together, and do for others what he has done for us." "Pshaw!" said the Doctor, catching up his reins and whip. "You owe me nothing. But I must not forget my errand.
Let nobody infer from what I have said that the good man died unlamented; for, indeed, it was a sad day with his neighbors when the news, long expected, ran at last from house to house and from workshop to workshop, "Dr. Singletary is dead!" He had not any enemy left among them; in one way or another he had been the friend and benefactor of all.
Singletary, as a man born to our common inheritance of joy and sorrow, earthly instincts and heavenward aspirations, our brother in sin and suffering, wisdom and folly, love, and pride, and vanity, has a claim upon the universal sympathy. Besides, whatever the living man may have been, death has now invested him with its great solemnity. He is with the immortals.
Genet demanded their release in the following extraordinary terms: "I have this moment been informed that two officers in the service of the republic of France, citizen Gideon Henfield and John Singletary, have been arrested on board the privateer of the French republic, the Citizen Genet, and conducted to prison.
Westward, the broad, clear river winds away into a maze of jutting bluffs and picturesque wooded headlands. The tall, white stone on the westerly slope of the hill bears the name of "Nicholas Singletary, M. D.," and marks the spot which he selected many years before his death.
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