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The other matter was more serious, since it involved the loss of his greatest friend, Arthur Thorburn. Briefly, what happened was this. There was a frontier disturbance. Godfrey, who by now was a staff officer, had been sent to a far outpost held by Thorburn with a certain number of men, and there took command.
Godfrey, as it chanced, omitting Isobel, had walked little even in these sweet shadows. There were but three others for whom he had felt devotion in all his days, Mrs. Parsons, his tutor, Monsieur Boiset, and his friend, Arthur Thorburn, who was gone. Therefore to him Isobel was everything. As a child he had adored her; as a woman she was his desire, his faith and his worship.
J. M. Thorburn & Co., of New York, Glendale Stock Farm, Glens Falls, and Cornell University, Ithaca, also received grand prizes on vegetables. Catalogue of the Exhibitors in the Department of Agriculture, with the Award, if Any, Received by Each From the opening to the close of the Fair, December first, New York's exhibit of fruit was maintained at a uniformly high standard of excellence.
Among the pupils studying there was a young man named Arthur Thorburn, an orphan, with considerable expectations, who lived with an aunt in a fine old house at Queen Anne's Gate.
The testimony of a man who regarded Thomas Jefferson as a disreputable person, as to the character of anybody, is utterly without value. Now, Grant Thorburn this gentleman who was "four feet and a half high, and who weighed ninety-eight pounds three and one-half ounces" says that he used to sit nights at Carver's, in New York, with Thomas Paine. Mrs.
They had communion pretty much all the time. Thorburn says that in 1802 Paine was an "old remnant of mortality, drunk, bloated, and half asleep." Can anyone believe this to be a true account of the personal appearance of Mr. Paine in 1802? He had just returned from France. He had been welcomed home by Thomas Jefferson, who had said that he was entitled to the hospitality of every American.
That he was a defaulter and fled from England to America. That he was a drunkard. These three charges stand upon the same evidence the word of Grant Thorburn. If they are not all true, Mr. Thorburn stands impeached. The charge that Mrs. Paine obtained a divorce on account of the cruelty and neglect of her husband is utterly false. There is no such record in the world, and never was.
Upon you rests the burden of substantiating these infamous charges. The Christians have, I suppose, produced the best evidence in their possession, and that evidence I will now proceed to examine. Their first witness is Grant Thorburn. He made three charges against Thomas Paine: 1. That his wife obtained a divorce from him in England for cruelty and neglect.
In the end Thorburn did engage the enemy with the result that practically he and his force were exterminated, but not before they had inflicted such a lesson on the said enemy that it sued for peace and has been great friends with the British power ever since.
If I hadn't won the Thorburn I don't believe I could have. I COULDN'T take any of Marilla's little hoard." "If we could only find a house!" sighed Priscilla. "Look over there at Kingsport, Anne houses, houses everywhere, and not one for us." "Stop it, Pris. 'The best is yet to be. Like the old Roman, we'll find a house or build one.
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