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1Author:  Smith Richard Penn 1799-1854Add
 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 punctual.
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