| | 1 | Author: | Smith
Richard Penn
1799-1854 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The forsaken  | | | | 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: | More than half a century ago, there stood in Darby,
a small village near Philadelphia, an humble inn, denominated
“The Hive;” which name the house acquired
in consequence of a rude sign, that yielding to every
blast of wind, creaked in front of the building; although
one who was not a connoisseur in painting, might have
mistaken the hive for a hay-cock, and the bees for
partridges, had not the ingenious artist, to prevent all
mistakes of this nature, judiciously painted, in capital
letters, the name of his design, which at once put an
end to the illiberal cavilling of such critics as could
decipher the alphabet. You may judge of the extent of my perplexities when
I apply to you for pecuniary assistance. Were you in
funds you would be the first I should apply to, but in
your present circumstances you should be the last.
But, as I do not know what fortune may have done for
you since our last interview, I have ventured to make
known my distresses to you. I have an insuperable
objection to my father's becoming acquainted with the
cause of my present embarrassment, and have therefore
employed every means to extricate myself before
a knowledge of the circumstance shall reach him. To
change the subject, I feel that I should fight the battles
of my king with better heart, if my earliest and best
friend were still by my side. Reflect again upon the
nature of the contest; reflect, I beseech you, until you
view it in the light that it is viewed by “Meet me at the sign of the Crooked Billet, on the
evening of the first of October, as I have something to
communicate that concerns you nearly. Fail not to be
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