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Robert Stapylton, who lived at Chelsea, in conjunction with John Malony and Edward Armstrong, two watermen, seized the person of Thomas Lewis, an African slave, in a dark night, and dragged him to a boat lying in the Thames; they then gagged him and tied him with a cord, and rowed him down to a ship, and put him on board to be sold as a slave in Jamaica.
But here Judge Allardyce broke in, to tell Miss Stapylton of the pleasure with which he had nolle prosequied the case against Tom Bellingham. "A son of my old schoolmate, ma'am," the judge explained. "A Bellingham of Assequin. Oh, indiscreet of course but, God bless my soul! when were the Bellinghams anything else? The boy regretted it as much as anybody."
Miss Stapylton appeared to delight in the cloistered easy-going life of Lichfield, that town which was once, as the outside world has half-forgotten now, the center of America's wealth, politics and culture, the town to which Europeans compiling "impressions" of America devoted one of their longest chapters in the heyday of Elijah Pogram and Jefferson Brick.
He merely stipulated that, since his business affairs prevented an indefinite stay in Lichfield, Colonel Musgrave should presently remove to New York City, where the older man held ready for him a purely ornamental and remunerative position with the Insurance Company of which Roger Stapylton was president. But upon this point Rudolph Musgrave was obdurate.
Why, Fortune is only a woman, you know, and what woman could have refused him anything if he had smiled at her like that when he asked for it?" Miss Stapylton gazed up at the portrait for a long time now, her hands clasped under her chin. Her face was gently reproachful. "Oh, boy dear, boy dear!" she said, with a forlorn little quaver in her voice, "how could you be so foolish?
Stapylton could have told you offhand which scions of the race had represented this or that particular county in the House of Burgesses, and even for what years; which three of them were Governors, and which of them had served as officers of the State Line in the Revolution; and, in fine, was more than satisfied to have his daughter play Penelophon to Colonel Musgrave's debonair mature Cophetua.
He did not mean to touch a penny of such moneys as Roger Stapylton had bequeathed to him; for the colonel considered now it was a man's duty personally to support his wife and child and sister. And he vigorously attempted to discharge this obligation, alike by virtue of his salary at the Library, and by spasmodic raids upon his tiny capital, and chief of all by speculation in the Stock Market.
Sedgwick always gave time: Lord Mounteney's gem'man says the system's bad, and so he'll put an end to it; and so all's gone, your honour; all's gone, and I'm mortal fear'd the good man's beside himself." "And who is Lord Mounteney's man of business?" "Mr. Stapylton Toad," sobbed the good dame.
Stapylton, like the rest of mankind, had his weak points. The late Marquess of Almack's was wont to manage him very happily, and Toad was always introducing that minister's opinion of his importance. "'My time is quite at your service, General, although the poor dear Marquess used to say, 'Mr. Stapylton Toad, your time is mine. He knew the business I had to get through!"
The Forc'd Marriage; or, The Jealous Bridegroom is the earliest, and most certainly one of the weakest of Mrs. Behn's plays. This is, however, far from saying that it is not a very good example of the Davenant, Howard, Porter, Stapylton school of romantic tragi-comedy. But Aphara had not yet hit upon her brilliant vein of intrigue.
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