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He stated in his subsequent report that the defence was intended solely to give his troops time to make their escape. Tilghman was captured with his staff and ninety men, as well as the armament of the fort, the ammunition and whatever stores were there.
Tilghman started the reading, Vesta followed, and Rhoda had to do her part, also; but she required to labor hard to keep up, as the chapter was in the Acts, descriptive of Paul's voyage towards Rome, and had plenty of hard words and geography in it.
The young men looked at each other in silence for a moment; Tilghman with an almost comical anxiety, Hamilton with alert defiance. "Well?" demanded Hamilton. "I come from the Chief ambassador extraordinary. Look out of the window, or I shall not have courage to go on. He's put the devil to bed and is monstrous sorry this misunderstanding has occurred " "Misunderstanding?" snorted Hamilton.
On our first appearance Tilghman had sent his entire command, with the exception of about one hundred men left to man the guns in the fort, to the outworks on the road to Dover and Donelson, so as to have them out of range of the guns of our navy; and before any attack on the 6th he had ordered them to retreat on Donelson.
"Glory to God!" suddenly exclaimed Grandmother Tilghman, who seemed to see without sight all that was going on. "I knew it would be so, if both would wait," sighed Rhoda to her husband, through her tears. There was still something on Milburn's mind, though he was unable to explain it.
Close by were oyster-shells high as a natural bluff, made by the Indian gourmands before John Smith's voyage of navigation. Vesta was set out at the great, ruined Episcopal church that, like a castle of brick, made the gateway of Rehoboth; while William Tilghman and Rhoda strolled into the open door of the brick Presbyterian church farther on, and Milburn put up the horses at the tavern.
The commander ended the interview by nodding his head. "Colonel Tilghman," he ordered, as Brereton dropped behind, "ride on to announce our coming; also present my compliments to Mr. Meredith and bespeak his company and that of his ladies to dinner." Mrs.
"Do you think, you young scapegrace, that this would be better than being a lawyer like Judge Ellicott?" and she turned upon him with one of her quick outbursts of mock indignation. "But I'm not going to paint dogs," he replied, with some impatience. "I am going to paint women, like the Sir Peter Lely that Uncle John Tilghman has. Oh, she's a beauty! I took Mr. Crocker to see her the other day.
He kissed her again, with the instinct of a father to a child, and hastened to his horses and the hotel. As Tilghman and Rhoda, at the earliest dawn, started for Princess Anne, the young girl suddenly turned and kissed her minister.
"'Tis grinding, monotonous work," admitted Tilghman, "and we've all wondered how you have stood it as long as this every bit of you was made for action. Well, I'll take your message to the Chief." Washington consented to waive the explanation and sent Hamilton another message, thanking him for consenting to remain until Harrison and Meade returned. Little Mrs.
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