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Again he nodded, and notched spark and throttle down. The car, leaping like a wild creature, began to hum at a swift clip along the smooth, white road toward Newburgh on the Hudson. Thirty miles an hour the speedometer showed, then thirty-five and forty. Again the drunken chauffeur, still master of his machine despite the poison pulsing in his dazed brain, snicked the little levers further down.
But the mood was upon him and it did not cheer him when Roy, turning and making a megaphone of his hands, called, "Look out and don't fall into the gas tank, Pee-wee!" He had reminded them that they had better buy gasoline at Newburgh, while they had the chance.
"Permit me to present to you the boy Croesus the only one extant. His marbles are plunks and his kites are made of fifty-dollar notes. He feeds upon coupons a la Newburgh, and his champagne is liquid golden eagles. Look at him, gentlemen, while you can, and watch him while he spends thirteen thousand dollars for flowers!" "With a Viennese orchestra for twenty-nine thousand!" added Bragdon.
One of his ventures was a share in a patent buckle from which he was to get rich, but from which he got losses and discouragement in fact, he had borrowed money to go into it and on his non-payment he was arrested and brought up the river on a night boat. Waking when the boat stopped at Newburgh and finding his guard was asleep, he got up and dressed and went ashore.
In such condition was found the vampire of Melrose, whose tale is also told by William of Newburgh. Many a holy man has chanted the Psalms under the arches of Melrose Abbey, but the vampire priest had never lived aught but a worldly, carnal life.
There were old laces handed down, and some brocade petticoats, and two trained gowns that had come from England long before. Primrose and Margaret Wharton were bridesmaids, and, oddly enough, Captain Vane, for he had arrived at that dignity, came from Newburgh on a furlough and stood with Margaret, so the foes and the friends were all together.
At that time he was teaching school at a small town near Newburgh and when Saturday came he wanted to go into the parlour for his day's work.
"O-oh!" all the girls cried with one voice, and they stared at the river and the shore as if they might even then see the shells dashing down the stream and the shouting crowds in the steamers and on the banks. Below Newburgh the river narrowed beneath upstanding cliffs and a point jutted out into the water. "Do you recognize that piece of land?" Mr. Emerson asked. No one did.
"Then wilt thou carry my idea with thee and consider it well? There need be no haste. Thy return will do." Much moved, he pressed her hand warmly. Then he carried it to his lips with the grace of a courtier. The city seemed quite dull when the Commander-in-Chief and his staff had departed for Newburgh. The feeling of peace grew stronger every day.
After Cornwallis's surrender, Washington marched his army back to the Hudson, and established his headquarters at Newburgh. Rochambeau followed somewhat later, and in September joined the Americans on the Hudson; but in December the French army marched to Boston, and there embarked for France.
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