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For Virginia received the coronet, which is the reward of all good little American girls, and was married to her boy-lover as soon as he came of age.
Leaning over in the saddle, he whispered: "I'll be back in a quarter of an hour Will you wait?" "Yes," she said, so that he barely heard. "Here?" She nodded. He was away at a gallop, leaving Virginia standing bareheaded to the night, alone. A spring of pity, of affection for Clarence suddenly welled up within her.
The contingent of Virginia troops the "raw American militia," as Braddock had called them, "who have little courage or good will, from whom I expect almost no military service, though I have employed the best officers to drill them": these men did almost the only fighting that was done on the English side, but they were too few to avert the disaster.
During the 17th century a stranger in Virginia desiring to purchase any article whatever, could only obtain it by applying at some plantation. Nowhere else in the colony could it be had. The Friendly Perswasive dwelt especially on the evils of this state of affairs.
They think only of revenues. They remind me of the report of the Reverend Commissary Blair who, having projected a college in Virginia, came to England to ask King William for help. The Queen in the King's absence ordered her Attorney-General to draw a charter with a grant of two thousand pounds.
Nevertheless, it substantially put the Virginia plan into a workable plan which proved to be the Constitution of the United States in embryo. When the committee on detail had made its report on August 6, the convention proceeded for over a month to debate it with the most minute care.
After that, he would pass into the service of the East India Company, know India, Java, and the Persian Gulf; would be praised by that great company for sagacity, energy, and good care of his men. Ten years' time from this first Virginia voyage, and he would die upon his ship, the Hope, before Bantam in Java.
Washington was not, like Franklin, of humble origin; neither can he strictly be classed with those aristocrats who inherited vast landed estates in Virginia during the eighteenth century, and who were ambitious of keeping up the style of living common to wealthy country gentlemen in England at that time.
Sending for Beverley he assigned him to the duty of hauling down the British flag and running up that of Virginia. It was an honor of no doubtful sort, which under different circumstances would have made the Lieutenant's heart glow.
"Oncagua," answered the Indian; "she once knew me; does she forget me now?" "Oh, no, no!" exclaimed Virginia, starting up and grasping the Indian's hands, which she placed on her head; "my ever kind protector; I should indeed be ungrateful could I have forgotten you. What my husband desires, I will do."
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