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Updated: May 2, 2025
A new creature! A law unto himself! The ideas were subconscious, and yet he found the words framing themselves on his lips. He repeated them mentally with some satisfaction as a cluster of lights on his left told him he was passing Greenport. Other lights, on a hill, above the town and away from it, were probably those of Judge Wayne's villa.
I immediately put Generals Maxwell and Wayne's brigades in motion, and I will fall lower down, with General Scott's, with Jackson's regiment, and some militia. I should be very happy if we could attack them before they halt, for I have no notion of taking one other moment but this of the march.
With his lean fingers spread on the table, he stared anxiously at Wayne's face, which did not move. "In forcing you ... it would," he repeated. "It shall," said Buck, shortly, turning to the table with a jerk. "We have done our best to be decent." Wayne lifted his large eyes slowly. "Was it my Lord Buck," he inquired, "who said that the King of England 'shall' do something?"
He missed, but he easily escaped among his comrades, who looked upon Dunmore as an enemy of their country and a traitor to their cause. Their spirit, both lawless and fearless, was the spirit of that race of Indian Fighters, as they were called, which grew up on the border in the war ending with Wayne's victory.
Barker is checked! Turnbull charges wins! But our left is broken. Wilson has smashed Bowles and Mead, and may turn our flank. Forward, the Provost's Guard!" And the whole centre moved forward, Wayne's face and hair and sword flaming in the van. The King ran suddenly forward. The next instant a great jar that went through it told that it had met the enemy.
"After the treaty of peace between the English and Americans, the summer before Wayne's army came out, the English held a council with the Indians, and told them if they would turn out and unite as one man, they might surround the Americans like deer in a ring of fire and destroy them all. The Wyandot spoke further in the council.
"Why, Sir," replied he, "it's nothing. We were talking about a ribbon, Sir." "What ribbon?" "A ribbon we saw at church, Sir." "Well, whose was it?" asked Mr. Gray. "I believe it was Miss Hope Wayne's." "You believe, Gyles? Why don't you speak out?" "Well, Sir, the fact is that Abel Newt says she had a purple ribbon on her bonnet " "She hadn't," said Gabriel, breaking in, impetuously.
Of his men engaged he says, "I have lost more than the one-quarter part, together with a slight touch in my right leg, which is partly well already." This was Wayne's first battle.
Everybody could not go into more spacious countries! There were some who must stay behind and make it right for the deserters. Wayne's marrying Ann had turned her back to familiar paths. It had terrified her. There seemed too much involved, too little certainty as to where one would find one's self if one left the well-known ways.
"Grey and his men marched stealthily on them in the night, passing through the woods and up a narrow defile. It was about one o'clock in the morning that they gained Wayne's left.
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