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"To Wilmington!" cried Judge Custis, staggering up. "Oh, my daughter! I have killed her." "What do they say, William, about Jack Wonnell's being found shot dead?" "It is generally said that he was killed by the negroes for gallantries to their color. Some talk of arresting little Roxy Custis." "What do you say, William Tilghman?" "I can say nothing.
An' the night before they was a-goin' up, that ar scamp run away with a widder an' her darter, jilted the widder an' married the darter; an' they couldn't rise at Girdle Tree Hill caze the preacher wa'n't thar, an' they didn't know when." "And I suppose Mrs. Somers tells it on him?" William Tilghman added. "That she do. Now, was you ever in love, Mr. William?"
I will have his new Excellency, who seems a good and a kindly man, and Lloyd and Tilghman and Dulany and the rest, with their ladies, to sit with me. And there will be plenty of punch and syllabub and sangaree, I warrant; and tarts and jellies and custards, too, for the misses. Ring for Mrs. Willis, my son." Willis came with her curtsey to the old gentleman, who gave his order then and there.
That I do not wish to distress him or the public business by quitting him before he can derive other assistance by the return of some of the gentlemen who are absent. 5th. And that in the meantime it depends on him to let our behaviour to each other be the same as if nothing had happened." Tilghman heaved a deep sigh. "Then you really mean to go?" he said. "Heartless wretch!
General Tilghman had telegraphed for reinforcements, and had about thirty-four hundred men with him, but only one company of artillerists. At midnight of the 5th he telegraphed to General A.S. Johnston that Grant was intrenching at Bailey's Ferry.
That pure and eminent jurist Chief Justice Tilghman thought that the policy of refusing a legal remedy for anything beyond that had not been adopted without great consideration. He stands not alone in the opinion that it has been neither for the honor nor profit of the Bar to depart from the ancient rule.
Men, women, and children pour in from the country, and wait along the road leading to Philadelphia, for the long-expected news. At length a horseman is seen riding at headlong speed. He waves his hat and shouts to the eager people, "Cornwallis is taken!" It is Colonel Tilghman, whom Washington sent posthaste to Philadelphia to inform Congress of the surrender.
"Does your grandfather know you are here, lad?" said Mr. Tilghman. I paused a moment for breath before I answered: "He attended the rally at the dock himself, sir, and I believe enjoyed it." Both gentlemen smiled, and Mr. Chase remarked that if all the other party were like Mr. Carvel, troubles would soon cease. "I mean not Grafton," says he, with a wink at Mr. Tilghman.
Tilghman returned with it, express haste, and the assurance that the General would endeavour to give him a command, nearly such as he could desire in the present circumstance of the army, Hamilton had accomplished his object. He retained his commission and quartered with General Lincoln.
His own figure was no less majestic than Washington's, but his brown eyes and full mouth were almost invariably smiling, despite the canker. He wore a very close wig. Tilghman was in blue, the other men in more sober dress.
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