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He stood with glittering eyes following Haward's every motion, but quite silent, his frame rigid in the overseer's grasp. Colonel Byrd went up to Haward and spoke in a low voice: "Best send them at once to Williamsburgh." Haward shook his head. "I cannot," he said, with a gesture of impatience. "There is no proof." "No proof!" exclaimed his guest sharply. "You mean"
The Highlander, obeying the demand for his company, the third or fourth since his day at Williamsburgh, came shortly before twilight to the great house, and found the master thereof still upon the terrace, sitting beneath an oak, with a small table and a bottle of wine beside him. "Ha, Mr. MacLean!" he cried, as the other approached. "Some days have passed since last we laid the ghosts!
At the close of the fourth act of the play, Haward left his station in the pit, and quietly made his way to the regions behind the curtain, where in the very circumscribed space that served as greenroom to the Williamsburgh theatre he found Tamerlane, Bajazet, and their satellites, together with a number of gentlemen invaders from the front of the house.
I do not know where first we met, but now we'll part. You have laid your finger here and you have laid it there, now take your hand away!" "Do you well, and I will," said Cary sternly. The other drew a labouring breath. "Two weeks ago I was in Williamsburgh, in the Apollo, listening in the heat to idle talk and you in Richmond, you came at her call!
Meanwhile the inventors were not idle, and the press fairly teemed with novel suggestions for the defense of the city. It was proposed to run all the oil stored in the Williamsburgh refineries into the lower bay, and set it on fire when the enemy's fleet appeared.
Thus closed the battle of Williamsburgh; a battle fought by two divisions and a part of a third, while the mass of the army remained as idle spectators of the terrible scene. If less than twenty thousand men could drive the rebels from their strong works, what could not that grand army have done had it been brought into action!
He saw her as she had been one snowy evening in February, and he saw her as she had looked the hour of his return from Williamsburgh the pleading, the passion, and the beauty. And now now The wind sighed again without the windows, and Jacqueline drew a shuddering breath. He spoke. "Jacqueline!" She moved slightly. "Yes, Lewis." "The night is quiet, after the storm.
Colonel Byrd had business at Williamsburgh, and must reach his lodgings there an hour before sunset. His four black horses brought to the door the great vermilion-and-cream coach; an ebony coachman in scarlet cracked his whip at a couple of negro urchins who had kept pace with the vehicle as it lumbered from the stables, and a light brown footman flung open the door and lowered the steps.
From Philadelphia the allied armies pursued their route, partly to the head of Elk river, which falls into the northern extremity of Chesapeake Bay, and partly to Baltimore, at which places they embarked on board transports furnished by the French fleet, and the last division of them landed at Williamsburgh on the 25th of September . Washington, Rochambeau, and their attendants proceeded to the same place by land, and reached it ten days before the troops.
No fires were allowed, and the men stood shivering all night rather than lie down in the mud. The sun rose clear and bright next morning, and the whole army filed into the works deserted by the enemy during the night, and occupied the town of Williamsburgh, a mile or more from the battle-field.
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