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Updated: May 12, 2025
Now Miss Statia has been fillin' trunks and baskets ever sense she could do anything, so that she's got a pretty likely stock but no one ever came along this way but what was married already, and that's the meanin' of bein' crossed in love. But don't for your life go to tellin' nobody they'd most chop my head off, if it should come out."
Harmon, after a somewhat protracted minute, came out with nothing on her arm but a book. "I 've just been too busy for anything," she explained. "You know I had the dressmaker two days I thought I 'd take the opportunity while George was away at the ranch. And, besides," she added, after a short pause, "I did n't think of it." "That's right, Statia. Always tell the truth, even as an afterthought."
But Aunt Henshaw always said: "Those are Statia's we must not touch them," and passed quickly on, without in the least indulging my excited curiosity. Whether Cousin Statia kept wild animals, or mysterious treasures, or old clothes, in all these places, I was unable to conclude; but I determined to find out if possible.
Smugglers were amply provided with Dutch papers. Goods poured in from Europe every day in the week. Rich owners of neighboring islands, not knowing how the French-English strife might turn out, sent their valuables to Statia for safe keeping. The little island became a treasure-house. At times more than a hundred merchant vessels could be seen swinging to their anchors in the roadstead.
They were the admiration of the kitchen; and even Aunt Henshaw and Cousin Statia allowed that ear-rings were a great improvement; and I began to think that on my return home they would even throw Ellen Tracy's curls into the shade.
"Abraham Ravené, commandant of the fort, lowered the red-white-and-blue flag of Holland in recognition of the American ship. In return, the Andrea Doria fired a salute. "This put the commandant in a quandary. Anchored not far from the Andrea Doria was a British ship. The enmity of the British for Holland, and especially against Statia, was no secret.
"Why, lor bless you!" said the colored girl in a mysterious manner, "Didn't you know that Miss Statia has been crossed in love?" Holly announced this fact as a sufficiently explanatory one; but I could not comprehend what connection there was between being crossed in love, and a large trunk of bran new things. "Why, I quite pities your ignorance, Miss Amy!
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