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41Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date, at 8:30 P.M., The University of Virginia now holds a balance of $42,500.00 upon the L. P. Stearnes loan which matures in the following manner: I have the honor to inform you that in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, retiring allowances have been voted to the following officers in the University of Virginia, to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. I have great pleasure in acknowledging receipt of your communication of May 10, 1912, informing me that in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, retiring allowances had been voted to the following officers in the University of Virginia to be paid in the ordinary way through the University: Milton Wylie Humphreys, $2050.00, Isaac Kimber Moran, $1460.00, Ormond Stone, $2050.00. I have notified these gentlemen of the action of the Foundation and beg to express to you for them their very great obligations. When their resignations are received by the Rector and Visitors, I shall give you due notice. I am in receipt of a communication from the Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, which contains this statement, "I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, a retiring allowance has been voted to Milton Wylie Humphreys, to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This retiring allowance amounts to $2050.00. The allowance of Prof. Humphreys will become effective on September 15, 1912." To you as President, and through you to the Rector and Visitors I hereby tender my resignation as Professor of Greek in the University of Virginia, to take effect September fifteenth, 1912. I am in receipt of a communication from the Secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching which contains this statement, "I have the honor to inform you that, in accordance with your recommendation and in conformity with the rules of the Carnegie Foundation, a retiring allowance has been voted to Ormond Stone, to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This retiring allowance amounts to $2050.00. The allowance of Professor Stone will become effective on September 15, 1912." Having been granted, in accordance with your recent letter, at my request, a retiring allowance by the Carnegie Foundation, I beg that you will kindly transmit to the Rector and Visitors my resignation as Professor of Astronomy, to take effect September 15th, next. In doing so I desire to express to you and the Faculty, as well as to the Rector and Visitors my sincere thanks for the many courtesies I have received during the thirty happy years I have spent at this University. May I also express the pleasure I have enjoyed in watching the growing spirit of progress which during these years has gradually infused       the life of the University, especially during the eight eventful years in which you have been its leader. I wish also to express my pleasure in noting the growing realization of the duty of the University constantly to readjust itself in order that it may with ever increasing efficiency contribute to the higher life of the people. In the firm belief that this spirit and this realization will continue to grow with the passing years, I lay down my work here with pride that I have been privileged for so long a time to be connected with an institution possessed of such splendid traditions, and (what is more important) inspired by such noble ambition to serve. With sincere personal esteem, I have the honor to inform you that the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has this day notified me that a retiring allowance has been voted to Isaac Kimber Moran to be paid in the ordinary way through the University. This retiring allowance will become effective on October 1, 1912. The amount accorded to you is $1460.00. It has been known to you for some months past that I have had in contemplation the relinquishment of the offices with which the University has so long honored me. I hereby tender to you my resignation as Bursar of the University of Virginia, and also as Secretary to the Board of Visitors, to take effect on October 1st, 1912. I respectfully request that I be permitted to occupy my present residence on University grounds, for the year from October 1st, 1912 to October 1st, 1913, at the same rental I am now paying; viz. $200.00 per annum.
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42Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date,
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43Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date.
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44Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1912 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date, Were hereby make application through you to the Rector and Visitors of the University, that the house formerly occupied by Professor J. W. Mallet be assigned to us, jointly, when it shall be given up by Mrs. Mallet. I beg to recommend that we carry out the suggestion made by Messrs. Coolidge and Bacon at their recent visit to the University. I have only by a slow process reached this conclusion. It was made to us some four years ago by Mr. Brown, the landscape man for the Government grounds and buildings at Washington.
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45Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Rector and Visitors on above date in the President's Office, East Lawn, I respectfully request that, in the event of the Bursar electing not to occupy the house now occupied by Mr. Moran, at such time as the latter shall cease to occupy it, I be granted the privilege of renting it on the same terms on which Mr. Moran now occupies it.
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46Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors, called for the consideration of the Financial Budget for 1913-1914. The Committee on Entrance Building having made the foregoing report, it was After the annual report of the Department of Engineering had been made and forwarded to the President, it was learned that Mr. J. S. Lapham, a graduate of this University in Mechanical Engineering, desired an appointment on our teaching staff. Mr. Lapham is a young man of unusual ability; and, if his application had been received earlier, he would undoubtedly have been engaged. It is not often that any school has the opportunity of securing the services of a man so eminently fitted by capacity, training, and character to make a useful and accomplished University teacher. The department is already committed to the young men nominated in our report as instructors for 1913-1914, and cannot in good faith, cancel any one of the nominations. On the other hand, the opportunity is one which cannot be postponed; unless Mr. Lapham comes to us, he will go into business with his father, and such permanent changes will have to be made in the details of that business as will prevent him from accepting a position with us in the future. As you are already aware, I have recently sent to the Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation a formal application for retirement, feeling that after forty years of full professional work and twenty-five years of active service at this University, the time has come when it is wise for me to take advantage of the provisions of the Foundation, I. We recommend that the sites on Carr's Hill for fraternity houses, be at present restricted to four, and that the northernmost site be located on a line passing through the centre of the president's residence and the centre of the president's stable, and at least as far distant from the president's house as is the location of the "Delta Tau Delta" house. Prof. Newcomb who is planning the plants for the sewage purification, as directed by the State Board of Health, indicates that we will have to acquire land to furnish a sufficient fall to carry off the effluent from the filter beds.
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47Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the annual meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date, in the office of the President, East Lawn. I have already advised you by letter of the matter of this supplementary report, but at the suggestion of Dean Page, I am now putting the matter in such form that it may be laid before the Visitors at their meeting to be held within the next few days. As you have not acted officially in the matter, and as there is not now time to transmit this report to you for action, the purpose of bringing it before the Visitors at this meeting is not for action thereon, but in the hope that they may refer it to you, or to yourself and the Executive Committee, for suchaction as youmay deem wise—and thus secure earlier action than would otherwise be possible.
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48Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors in the office of the President, East Lawn, on above date, In accordance with the agreement at the conference between Dr. P. H. Whitehead, Dean of the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, Dr. Stuart McGuire, Dean of the Medical College of Virginia, and myself, in this city on Thursday evening last, the Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia yesterday appointed a committee of five to confer with a similar committee to be appointed by the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia to discuss plans looking to the union of the medical schools in this state. The committee consists of— On September 1, 1913, I, as Chairman of the Commons Committee, entered into a contract with Charles Jaimes Leasing the University Commons for the period of one year. The terms of this agreement are exactly the same as authorized by the Rector and Board of Visitors in the spring of 1912, except that in lieu of a surety bond guaranteeing the safe return of the University's property, I accepted a $50.00 a month deposit with the Bursar of the University. It was impossible for Mr. Jaimes to secure the bond required, and I substituted this cash deposit because I believed that the University's interests were amply safeguarded thereby, and on account of the limited time, it was impossible for me to wait for authority from the Board.
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49Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date, in the office of the President, East Lawn, Joint meeting of the Committees from the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia, and the Medical College of Virginia. I respectfully ask that you permit me to use the land between the Cemetery branch and Mrs. Towles' line, for the purposes of pasture and gardening. At present, it is swamp land grown up in rushes and brush. It will be greatly improved by use; and of course, can be surrendered immediately on demand of the University.
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50Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1913 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The Board of Visitors met at 8:15 o'clock P. M., on above date, with the following members present:- As a Codicil to my last will and testament, I provide that so far as my personal chattels are concerned, both such as I hold jointly with my sister, and such as I have in my sole right, she (my sister Fanny) shall have the free use, control and disposition of them without being held in any manner accountable therefor; but this provision does not apply, and must not be held applicable to the bonds, stocks, and scrip, which I hold and own either jointly with her or separately, but all such bonds stocks and scrip must be held as subject exclusively to the provisions of my will of December 8th, 1877, to which this is a codicil. Witness my hand this 19th February 1881. Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr., has placed before the Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia, with the Medical Department of the University of Virginia, as adopted by your Board. In accordance with our conversation, I beg that you will request the Board to vote me one hundred dollars, with which to construct a dark room, which is to be placed in the basement of the Observatory. At a meeting of the Committee on Entrance Building, there were present Messrs. Lambeth, Michie, Newcomb, Forrest. The following resolutions were presented by Mr. Forrest. Moved and seconded by Messrs. Michie and Newcomb that they be adopted. Carried. The Board of Visitors met on this date at 10:15 o'clock in Madison Hall to hear the advocates and opponents of the Woman's Co-ordinate College matter, with the following members present; Messrs. Gordon, Flood, White, Norton Drewry, Oliver, Irvine, Craddock, Michie and Stearnes. Also Dr. J. M. Page, Acting President.
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51Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a meeting of the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia on above date, in the office of the President, East Lawn. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 13th inst., with the two inclosures from the Secretary of your Board of Visitors. Your letter of the 13th inst., addressed to Dr. S. C. Mitchell, President Medical College of Virginia, was submitted to the Executive Committee of the Medical College of Virginia at its meeting on yesterday.
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52Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A called meeting of the Board of Visitors was held on this date, with the following members present: Rector Gordon, Judge Norton, John W. Craddock, Ceo. R. B. Michie and R. C. Stearnes. Having learned through Dr. Booker of Balitmore that Dr. W. P. Morgan was on the point of bestowing his library upon some institution, Dr. Harry T. Marshall conveyed to me, as Chairman of the Library Committee, this information. After an exchange of letters with Dr. Morgan Dr. Marshall and myself visited him at his home, 315 Monument Street, Baltimore—with the result that he presented to us his entire collection of books, claiming the right to reserve some of the books for his own use as long as he should live. At the solicitation of Dr. William D. Booker of Baltimore and Dr. Harry T. Marshall of the University of Virginia, I offer my library to the University of Virginia, according to the terms agreed upon by yourself and At the meeting of our Library Committee yesterday afternoon I read them your letter of December 12, in which you state that at the solicitation of Dr. William D. Booker, of Baltimore, and Dr. Harry T. Marshall, of the University of Virginia, you offer your library to the University of Virginia, according to the terms agreed upon by yourself and me as Chairman of the Library Committee. (re-Estate Frances L. Wilson, deceased.)
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53Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At a called meeting of the Board of Visitors at twelve o'clock, noon, on above date,
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54Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: The Board of Visitors met on this date at 11:30 o'clock, with the following present: Rector Gordon, and Visitors Michie, Drewry, Oliver, Stearnes and Hatton. I had some correspondence with you about a year ago relative to the Estate of Robert P. Doremus. The Executors are now filing their account. I recently took the liberty of       suggesting to Mrs. Chas. H. Senff of 16 East 79th Street, New York City, that a great opportunity existed at the University to do a good service by building a gateway to our new entrance, which would commemorate both her husband and in a large sense, the Honor System at that institution. We the undersigned residents east of the University, beg permission to enter the University grounds near the Coal Bin.
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55Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Visitors on above date. I take pleasure in announcing the award of the following scholarships from the Charlottesville High School to the University of Virginia for the session 1914-1915.
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56Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1914 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: A meeting of the Rector and Visitors was held on this date at 12 m., with the following members, Rector Gordon, and Visitors White, Hatton, Chinn, Michie, Drewry and Oliver. A recent audit of the books of the University of Virginia, made by this office, shows the books to have been correctly kept, and that all entries in same are sustained by vouchers properly filed. The period covered by the examination was from July 1st, 1913 to July 1st, 1914. I am glad to report that the service here is painstaking and satisfactory to this office.
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57Author:  University of Virginia Board of VisitorsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Board of Visitors minutes  
 Published:  1915 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-BoardOfVisitorsMinutes 
 Description: Pursuant to call of the Rector, the Board met on this date at three o'clock in the Administration Building. After consideration of the petition of the University Cemetery Endowment Association, and the estimate of the costs of the proposed addition, by the Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings, the Executive Committee recommends the passage of the following resolutions: Some time after the return of President Alderman, the Bursar, at the suggestion of the President, consulted the Chairman of the Executive Committee, as to what compensation the Dean of the University should receive. Since July, Dr. Page had been receiving the regular salary of a full professor, $3,300.00 and a house; $350.00 as Dean, and $1,500 as acting President during Dr. Alderman's absence,—a total of $5150.00 and a house. After Dr. Alderman's return the Bursar was uncertain of his authority to continue paying Dr. Page as acting president. He asked advice of the President, who referred him to the Chairman of the Executive Committee. The latter corresponded with the other members of the committee, but it was decided to defer action until the meeting of the Board of Visitors. Since November the 1st, the payment of the salary of $1500.00 as acting president has been discontinued.
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58Author:  Irving Washington 1783-1859Requires cookie*
 Title:  A book of the Hudson  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: It used to be a favorite assertion of the venerable Diedrich Knickerbocker, that there was no region more rich in themes for the writer of historic novels, heroic melodramas, and rough-shod epics, than the ancient province of the New Netherlands, and its quondam capital, at the Manhattoes. “We live,” he used to say, “in the midst of history, mystery, and romance; he who would find these elements, however, must not seek them among the modern improvements and monied people of the monied metropolis; he must dig for them, as for Kidd the pirate's treasures, in out of the way places, and among the ruins of the past.” Never did sage speak more truly. Poetry and romance received a fatal blow at the overthrow of the ancient Dutch dynasty, and have ever since been gradually withering under the growing domination of the Yankees. They abandoned our hearths when the old Dutch tiles were superseded by marble chimney pieces; when brass andirons made way for polished grates, and the crackling and blazing fire of nut wood gave place to the smoke and stench of Liverpool coal; and on the downfall of the last crow-step gables, their requiem was tolled from the tower of the Dutch Church in Nassau street, by the old bell that came from Holland. But poetry and romance still lurk unseen among us, or seen only by the enlightened few who are able to contemplate the common-place scenes and objects of the metropolis, through the medium of tradition, and clothed with the associations of foregone ages.
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59Author:  Jones J. B. (John Beauchamp) 1810-1866Requires cookie*
 Title:  The western merchant  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
 Description: I was born in one of the eastern cities, and was the sixth of eleven children, of poor parents. When I was about six years of age, my family emigrated to Kentucky, then considered the “far west.” At the end of six years, my father failed in business; and as he was now entirely too poor to provide for his large family, those that were deemed old enough sought employment to support themselves. Nor were they wholly unprepared for the exigency; for our honored parent, in more propitious times, had placed the proper estimate upon the importance of education, and from the time we were old enough to go to school, until the loss of his fortune, (and every dollar was honorably offered up to his creditors,) we had excellent preceptors. Being unluckily the sixth child, I was not so far advanced in the books as my seniors, when the disaster alluded to befell us—but as I had the advantage of my five juniors, there was no just cause of complaint. I had the rudiments of a good English education, and an insatiable passion for books, which they deemed quite sufficient for the very humble part it seemed I was destined to play in the great drama of life. “Dear Luke:—I cannot restrain myself any longer from writing to you. Your last letter, informing me of your good prospects, and of your intention to commence business for yourself at Hanover, was directed to me, and not in an envelope to a third person—so it fell into the hands of my guardian-uncle, and excited his wrath and indignation to a frightful extent. But the worst of it was that he did not tell me what it was all about, but kept the letter himself. Now, I am my own mistress, and have some fortune here in old Virginia in my own right. I might at any time 13 relieve myself of his supervision, and his eccentric solicitude. Yet as my uncles are the nearest of kin that I have, I hope to be able to avoid a rupture with them. But to my narration. A few days after your letter fell into his hands, he announced his intention to take me to Virginia, and leave me under the protection of his brother, my uncle Edgar Beaufort. Not being aware of the cause which induced this step on his part, I was delighted with the idea of going back to old Virginia, and so I readily agreed to his proposition, without paying any particular attention to his remarks about the opportunity the change would afford me of marrying some one of my own station, equal in birth and fortune. “Luke, if you come to see me, remember it is merely the careless passing visit of a friend. There is a Methodist meeting house near the — hotel, in which they are holding a protracted meeting. If you follow a merry little old woman (you will know her by her shouting in the meeting house) to her broading-house, you will find me. My uncle is here, and might be harsh if he met you. Should you meet, you must not resent anything he may say, and above all, have no hostile collision with him. You must register a promise in heaven to do as I bid, before starting hitherward; else you have not my permission to come. Remember “Sir—In violation of the expressed desire of my brother, you have persisted in addressing letters to my niece; you have not only done that, but you have had the presumption to seek and obtain a clandestine interview with her. Being her next of kin, and natural protector, I deem it incumbent on me to demand, in this formal manner, the satisfaction which one gentleman has a right to require of another (and which no gentleman can refuse), for such an intrusive disregard of the wishes expressed by my brother, and endorsed by myself. “Dear Sir—I am at No. 6, — hotel, an entire stranger, and have received a challenge from Mr. E. Beaufort to meet him in mortal combat. I have never seen Mr. Beaufort before to-day, and certainly never insulted or injured him. If you will consent to give me the benefit of your advice in the premises, I will avail myself of the opportunity to relate all the circumstances of the case to you. “Luke:—The servant who hands you this, belongs to me, and has informed me that my uncle has challenged you to mortal combat. He says he heard my uncle tell his friends that he liked your appearance so much, he was almost sorry that he had quarreled with you, and that if you behaved well on the field, he would tender you his friendship, after an exchange of shots, which he hoped might have no serious result. Now, Luke, are you willing to fight for me? You have never said you desired to have me, nor I that I was at your service. I desire it to be distinctly understood by you, as it is sufficiently by him, that I am not at the disposal of my uncle. I am of age, and am my own mistress. My uncle is kind to me in my presence, and never seeks to control my actions. Should I make an unworthy alliance, the worst thing he could do, or would have a desire to attempt, would be to abandon my society. You now understand the relation in which we stand. I do not, however, wish to break with my uncle. He is generous, brave, and magnanimous; and of course it would wound me past recovery if you, my friend, should slay him in a duel. Thus you see that, by acceding to his proposition, to obtain his friendship, you would lose mine. Of that you may be assured. If you resolve to meet him, I resolve never to see you again. You must choose between him and me. But if you determine to accede to my request, and depart without a collision with him, you have my promise that, at a future day, should it be your pleasure, you can see me again, unchanged in every particular. “Sir:—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of this morning. In reply, I have to state that, inasmuch as no definite proposal has been made by me to your niece, and as my engagements will demand my unintermitting presence at a point some two thousand miles distant from this, for at least a year to come, I must decline the meeting you demand, at least for the present. Should fortune bring me again in the vicinity of your niece, at some future day, and it should then be your pleasure to renew the demand, that will be the proper time for me to announce my final decision. “Luke,” said Blanche, “if you have seen proper to afflict yourself without reason, it was cruel to afflict Blanche also, who never did you any harm. And now, if you persist in dying, you may have the consolation, if the fact can console you, of knowing that Blanche will die also, murdered by you. * * * * You declare your love, and announce your purpose never to see me more. Would it not have been generous to have withheld the declaration, and left me in doubt? Luke, did you know that the passion was mutual? You have spoken plainly, at last; and I will do so too. Never, since we first parted, no, never for a moment, have I entertained the shadow of a thought that I could or would bestow my hand on any other than yourself—and such is the case still. * * * * * Luke, I have been addressed by several since we parted last, and all have abandoned the pursuit on learning my purpose, which I have frankly made known to them. My uncle took me to the falls of Niagara, Saratoga Springs, and divers other gay places last summer; but all in vain: he found that it was impossible to wean me from my first attachment. On my return, I pronounced my last positive rejection of the suit of the one whom my uncle preferred. Luke, we were standing on the balcony of a hotel in 23 Philadelphia, when he desired to know my decision. At that moment I thought I beheld your pale features, and that you cast upon me a look of reproach and sadness. A monosyllable sufficed for my petitioner, and I did not even have the curiosity to look after him, and observe how deeply he was disappointed and piqued. I had eyes only for the vision before me, if vision it was. I felt that Providence had linked our destinies together by adamantine chains, and I had no disposition to rupture them if they had been formed of a weaker material. Luke, was it you? Oh, if it was, how cruel not to come and speak to me! * * * * * * Luke, when I learned through the newspapers of your loss on that terrible steamer, my mind was made up. It was my fixed determination to place myself and my little fortune in your keeping, if you desired it, as soon as we met. How could you suppose that the loss of your money might involve the loss of my affection? No, Luke, you have not yet learned fully the character of Blanche. In misfortune she will cling the more closely to you, and be all the bolder in her ministrations of solace and encouragement. * * * * * Adhere Steadfastly to your Business.
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60Author:  Judah Samuel B. H. (Samuel Benjamin Helbert) ca. 1799-1876Requires cookie*
 Title:  The buccaneers  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
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