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He kept a bold face to the enemy, but after Wingfield's departure, Maude saw that his confidence was greatly shaken. 'He seemed very sure of their case, said he. 'He would not speak like that if he did not know. But Maude took quite another view. 'If they know that they can recover their money in court, why should they send Mr. Wingfield down in this way.
Major Wingfield had not liked his overseer, but he had never had any ground to justify him making a change. Jonas, who was a Northern man, was always active and energetic; all Major Wingfield's orders were strictly and punctually carried out, and although he disliked the man, his employer acknowledged him to be an excellent servant.
The next extract in regard to this voyage is from President Wingfield's "Discourse of Virginia," which appears partly in the form of a diary, but was probably drawn up or at least finished shortly after Wingfield's return to London in May, 1608.
Upon this hostility, says Smith, the President was contented the fort should be palisaded, and the ordnance mounted, and the men armed and exercised. The fortification went on, but the attacks continued, and it was unsafe for any to venture beyond the fort. Dissatisfaction arose evidently with President Wingfield's management.
I had no need to go far, for she had come straight in my direction. 'Well, dear? she said, and again I liked her voice, though I did not exactly think about it, 'and are you Mrs. Wingfield's little girl? 'My name is Helena Charlotte Naomi Wingfield, I said, very gravely and distinctly, 'and grandmamma is Mrs. Wingfield. Mrs.
I forget if you can shoot. 'Matilda and Caroline do. 'You shall learn. We will have the targets out. Where's the light bow you used to shoot with, Theodora? 'It is somewhere, said Theodora, without alacrity; 'no, I remember, I gave it to Mr. Wingfield's little nephew. 'Unlucky!
Wingfield's statement that the supply left with the colony was very scant, a store that would only last thirteen weeks and a half, and prudence in the distribution of it, in the uncertainty of Newport's return, was a necessity. Whether Wingfield used the delicacies himself is a question which cannot be settled.
A month later she and her husband returned to Virginia, as her presence was required there in reference to business matters connected with the estate, of which she was now the mistress. The Orangery, so called from a large conservatory built by Mrs. Wingfield's grandfather, was the family seat, and the broad lands around it were tilled by upward of two hundred slaves.
I saw the supreme selfishness of shutting her up on the desert, without any glimpse of the outer world. I sensed the call that sent her on her lonely rides to the pass. I feared that your coming had increased her restlessness. "But I wander! That is my fault, as you know, Sir Chaps. Well, we come to the end of the weaving; to the finality of John Wingfield's victory.
"Say but to my lady that you have searched and the goods be not in the hold of the Earl of Fairfax, and must have miscarried, as faith they have, and say that next voyage you will deliver them and hold thyself responsible for the cost, as you well can afford with Master Wingfield's money." "Hast ever heard my Lady Culpeper's tongue?" demanded the other. "'Tis easy to advise.
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