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"Yes," answered her husband, pausing to look for a moment at the stuff Kennedy had left with Armand. Mrs. Verplanck leaned over the Streamline, turned as she saw me, and said: "I wish I could go with you. But evening dress is not the thing for a shivery night in a speed boat. I think I know as much about it as Mr. Verplanck. Are you going to leave Armand?"
I'm probably off for a long time, Emma. I hope you'll find your St. Michael companionable. When you decide to throw him out of the window, let me know. Forgive me again. Good-by." She gave him her hand silently and followed him out into the loggia. As she watched him striding angrily down the valley and away, she had the air of a woman who would have cried if she were not Emma Verplanck.
I thought there was a trace of something veiled in the remark and fancied, not only then but later, that there was an air of constraint between the couple. "You have not been robbed yourself?" queried Craig tentatively. "Indeed we have," exclaimed Verplanck quickly. "The other night I was awakened by the noise of some one down here in this very library.
As late as the year 1818, G. C. Verplanck, a personal friend of Irving's, called him to account in an address before the New York Historical Society, to which the first edition of Knickerbocker was gravely dedicated, for "wasting the riches of his fancy on an ungrateful theme, and his exuberant humor in a coarse caricature." One of his brothers wrote to Irving, deprecating the attack.
Its eloquence, its patriotism, its crowded illustrations, drawn from vast resources of knowledge, its epigrammatic axioms, its occasional pleasantries, are all characteristic of the writer. Mr. Gulian C. Verplanck, the venerable senior member of the society, proposed the vote of thanks to Mr. Motley with words of warm commendation. Mr. William Cullen Bryant rose and said:
If The Mad Poet from his housetop could have seen what the next few years had in store, he would have beheld the aged dramatist dying at his home in Spring Street, close to Broadway, his body followed from there by his mourning friends Halleck and Verplanck and Woodworth and some few others, followed to the churchyard surrounding the nearby St.
I did not go to court the President, for I was opposed to him in principle, and had no favors to ask at his hands. I was afraid, however, I should be awkward, as I was so entirely a stranger to fashion; and in going along, I resolved to observe the conduct of my friend Mr. Verplanck, and to do as he did. And I know that I did behave myself right well."
It would be vain to describe Betty's emotion as from the windows of the Verplanck mansion she watched the troops and the civil concourse, and realized that at last, after long years of heroic endurance, of gallant fighting, of many privations, the freedom of the Colonies was an accomplished fact.
To hide his confusion he had turned and was bending again over the engine. "How is it?" asked Kennedy, his signaling over. "Able to run on four cylinders and one propeller," replied Verplanck. "Then let's try her. Watch the engine. I'll take the wheel." Limping along, the engine skipping and missing, the once peerless Streamline started back across the bay.
Verplanck, Gulian Crommelin, literary rank, 33. Virginia, University of, 299. Volcano, illustration, 113. Voltaire, 409. Voting, done reluctantly, 152, 153. Wachusett, Mount, 70. Walden Pond: allusion, 22, 70, 72; cabin, 142, 143. War: outgrown, 88, 89; ennobling, 298. Ware, Henry, professorship, 52. Ware, Henry, Jr.: Boston ministry, 55; correspondence, 124-127.
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