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I hear there are other troubles abroad and that those pestilent Puritans, who were never able to live in peace for any length of time, have rebelled against the King. I am sorry it hath come to open blows. But they will soon have the punishment they deserve. We are enjoined to live at peace with all men." "The news is extremely meager. There is a great ferment," Madam Wetherill replied suavely.
It was quite a brave show, and a proud day for Anabella, who had been dreaming of it since she was a dozen years old. Madam Wetherill gave her a wedding dinner, which now would be called a breakfast, so much have things changed, and then a coach took the newly married pair to their own home.
He spoke with the courteous ease of a well-bred gentleman, and the smith sat down. Friend Wetherill paused a moment, looking to left and right along the lines of deeply interested and motionless faces. Then he continued: "On what you and others do in these days depends what shall come upon us. Let no man deceive you, not even the timid counsel of gray hairs or the wariness of wealth.
I think to-day he would rather be at Mount Vernon with his wife and the little Custis children than all the show and trappings of high military honors. And there should never be any love or lust of conquest except for the larger liberty." Madam Wetherill comforted him with great kindliness. "I think thou wilt lose nothing in the end," she said gravely.
Even the handsome Major André, who had come because Nevitt had talked so much about his little sister and Madam Wetherill, and also because he was likely to meet some of the attractive young women of the town, and "Primrose was like a little fairy for beauty, and that her smiles were bewitching." A very great time it was indeed.
And she much preferred listening to the ladies and the gallants to gathering flowers or hearing the birds singing in the trees. One day Andrew came. Everything was better at Cherry Hill, and her uncle thought now it was time for her to come. "Why, is your father getting about so soon?" asked Madam Wetherill in surprise. "Oh, no, indeed! He mends but slowly.
Twice a week the tutor came for Latin and French, the former first; and then Anabella came for French, and after that the little girls could have a play or a walk, or a ride with Madam Wetherill.
Primrose Wharton was a pretty young wife and the mother of a golden-haired little girl when she next saw "Lady Washington," as she was often called. She had settled into a gracious, but still piquant, matron, and she and Allin enjoyed the theater and still dearly loved a dance. Madam Wetherill was yet a handsome and stately dame, and "foolish over the little one," she said.
"That is your uncle, your father's brother," said Madam Wetherill. Madam Wetherill made her brief explanation to show why she had ventured to bring two dashing redcoats, in their military trappings, to the home of the plain Quaker. James Henry looked at his nephew with many lines of doubt in his face and evident disapprobation.
Only the stars were keeping watch, and the winds made now and then a rustle. Someone rode into the town tired and exhausted, but joyful, and with joyful news. The German watchman, who caught it first, went on his rounds with, "Past two o'clock and Lord Cornwallis is taken." He came down Arch Street. Madam Wetherill had been rather wakeful. What was it?
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