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Henry St. John, gentleman, of "Flower of Hundreds," in the county of Prince George, Virginia

a tale of 1774-'75
Cooke, John Esten (1830-1886)
  
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PROLOGUE. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.
  
CONTENTS.

 1. 
CHAPTER I. FLOWERS OF THE FOREST.
 2. 
CHAPTER II. FLOWERS OF THE COURT.
 3. 
CHAPTER III. HOW BLOSSOM FAINTED, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
 4. 
CHAPTER IV. A GLIMPSE OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD DUNMORE.
 5. 
CHAPTER V. IN WHICH HIS EXCELLENCY GETS THE BETTER OF A CHILD.
 6. 
CHAPTER VI. THE GREAT GRANDSON OF POCAHONTAS.
 7. 
CHAPTER VII. CONSPIRACY.
 8. 
CHAPTER VIII. VANELY.
 9. 
CHAPTER IX. BONNYBEL VANE.
 10. 
CHAPTER X. “OLD GOUTY.”
 11. 
CHAPTER XI. A MAY MORNING IN '74.
 12. 
CHAPTER XII. THE WINDOW PANES AT VANELY.
 13. 
CHAPTER XIII. HOW THEY DANCED A MINUET DE LA COUR.
 14. 
CHAPTER XIV. WHICH VERIFIES THE PROVERB THAT LISTENERS NEVER HEAR ANY GOOD OF THEMSELVES.
 15. 
CHAPTER XV. BONNYBEL LOOKS IN A MIRROR AND LAUGHS.
 16. 
CHAPTER XVI. THE NEWS FROM BOSTON.
 17. 
CHAPTER XVII. THE MODEL OF A PERFECT LOVER.
 18. 
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW MR. LINDON CAME TO AND WENT AWAY FROM VANELY.
 19. 
CHAPTER XIX. BONNYBEL VANE TO HER FRIEND, MISS CATHARINE EFFINGHAM, AT “THE COVE,” IN GLOUCESTER COUNTY.
 20. 
CHAPTER XX. HOW MISS BONNYBEL FAINTED IN THE ARMS OF HER COUSIN.
 21. 
CHAPTER XXI. BONNYBEL VANE TO HER FRIEND, KATE EFFINGHAM.
 22. 
CHAPTER XXII. AT THE “TRYSTING TREE.”
 23. 
CHAPTER XXIII. ST. JOHN MAKES HIS ENTRY INTO RICHMOND TOWN.
 24. 
CHAPTER XXIV. IN WHICH THE AUTHOR OMITS DESCRIBING THE RACES.
 25. 
CHAPTER XXV. HOW MR. ST. JOHN ENCOUNTERED A STRANGER, AND OF WHAT THEY CONVERSED.
 26. 
CHAPTER XXVI. HOW THE STRANGER BECAME AN HISTORIAN AND A PROPHET.
 27. 
CHAPTER XXVII. HOW ST. JOHN MET A FRIEND IN WILLIAMSBURG.
 28. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECRET AGENT.
 29. 
CHAPTER XXIX. HOW A VIRGINIA GIRL WROTE VERSES IN '74.
 30. 
CHAPTER XXX. HOW MR. ST. JOHN RETURNED HIS COMMISSION TO LORD DUNMORE.
 31. 
CHAPTER XXXI. THE LETTER.
 32. 
CHAPTER XXXII. WHAT HAPPENED AT THE “INDIAN CAMP.”
 33. 
CHAPTER XXXIII. A SLEEPING BEAUTY.
 34. 
CHAPTER XXXIV. ST. JOHN, FROM HIS HOUSE OF “FLOWER OF HUNDREDS,” TO HIS FRIEND, TOM ALSTON, AT “MOOREFIELD.”
 35. 
CHAPTER XXXV. THE REPLY.
 36. 
CHAPTER XXXVI. BLOSSOM.
 37. 
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE WOOF OF EVENTS.
 38. 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. THE FIXED STARS OF VIRGINIA.
 39. 
CHAPTER XXXIX. HOW THE STRANGER'S FIRST PROPHECY WAS FULFILLED.
 40. 
CHAPTER XL. HOW HIS EXCELLENCY ASKED THE NAME OF THE STRANGER.
 41. 
CHAPTER XLI. THE STEPS AND THE BASE OF LORD BOTETOURT'S STATUE.
 42. 
CHAPTER XLII. THE “APOLLO” ROOM IN THE RALEIGH TAVERN.
 43. 
CHAPTER XLIII. IN WHICH A CHARIOT ARRIVES.
 44. 
CHAPTER XLIV. THE ASSEMBLY AT THE CAPITOL.
 45. 
CHAPTER XLV. THE RIVAL LIEUTENANTS OF THE GUARDS.
 46. 
CHAPTER XLVI. THE SECRETARY.
 47. 
CHAPTER XLVII. ST. JOHN AND LINDON.
 48. 
CHAPTER XLVIII. ST. JOHN GOES TO “FLODDEN.”
 49. 
CHAPTER XLIX. HOW CAPTAIN RALPH WATERS FULFILLED HIS MISSION.
 50. 
CHAPTER L. THE FUGITIVE.
 51. 
CHAPTER LI. HER ONLY FAILING.
 52. 
CHAPTER LII. THE COMBAT: RED AND WHITE ROSES.
 53. 
CHAPTER LIII. THE NEWS REACHES VANELY.
 54. 
CHAPTER LIV. TWO HEARTS.
 55. 
CHAPTER LV. WHICH COMMENCES THE SECOND PORTION OF THE HISTORY.
 56. 
CHAPTER LVI. HOW CAPTAIN WATERS PLUCKED ALL HIS GEESE.
 57. 
CHAPTER LVII. SOME OLD FRIENDS—AT LEAST THE AUTHOR HOPES SO.
 58. 
CHAPTER LVIII. THE SECOND WARNING.
 59. 
CHAPTER LIX. HOW ST. JOHN DREW HIS SWORD, AND STRUCK AT A SHADOW.
 60. 
CHAPTER LX. TOM ALSTON TO HENRY ST. JOHN.
 61. 
CHAPTER LXI. ST. JOHN TELLS HOW A SPIRIT ENTERED HIS ROOM AT MIDNIGHT.
 62. 
CHAPTER LXII. HOW MR. ALSTON TRAVELED ALL NIGHT, AND WHAT FOLLOWED.
 63. 
CHAPTER LXIII. A BROKEN HEART: HENRY ST. JOHN TO THOMAS ALSTON.
 64. 
CHAPTER LXIV. HENRY ST. JOHN, ESQUIRE, TO MISS BONNYBEL VANE, AT VANELY, IN PRINCE GEORGE.
 65. 
CHAPTER LXV. “HOW STRANGE! I KNEW A BONNYBEL ONCE!”
 66. 
CHAPTER LXVI. THE LAST HALLUCINATION OF ST. JOHN.
 67. 
CHAPTER LXVII. HOW ST. JOHN KEPT HIS APPOINTMENT WITH THE STRANGER.
 68. 
CHAPTER LXVIII. A VIRGINIA GIANT.
 69. 
CHAPTER LXIX. ON THE BANKS OF BELLE RIVIERE.
 70. 
CHAPTER LXX. THE OLD CHURCH OF ST. JOHN.
 71. 
CHAPTER LXXI. BONNYBEL'S DREAM.
 72. 
CHAPTER LXXII. BONNYBEL VANE TO HER FRIEND, KATE EFFINGHAM.
 73. 
CHAPTER LXXIII. THE FRIENDS.
 74. 
CHAPTER LXXIV. THE REMOVAL OF THE POWDER.
 75. 
CHAPTER LXXV. WILLIAMSBURG IN ARMS, AND CAPTAIN RALPH WATERS IN ECSTACIES.
 76. 
CHAPTER LXXVI. A MEETING OF PATRIOTS.
 77. 
CHAPTER LXXVII. A YOUNG SPY.
 78. 
CHAPTER LXXVIII. GENERAL EFFINGHAM IS CARRIED OFF BY A CHARIOT.
 79. 
CHAPTER LXXIX. THE MARCH OF THE HANOVERIANS ON WILLIAMSBURG.
 80. 
CHAPTER LXXX. THE MEETING AT DONCASTLE'S ORDINARY.
 81. 
CHAPTER LXXXI. THE ROBBERY OF THE COACH OF THE KING'S RECEIVER-GENERAL.
 82. 
CHAPTER LXXXII. HOW LINDON LEFT WILLIAMSBURG, AND WHOM HE CONVERSED WITH AT AGINCOURT.
 83. 
CHAPTER LXXXIII. A GLANCE AT VANELY.
 84. 
CHAPTER LXXXIV. BONNYBEL VANE TO HER FRIEND KATE EFFINGHAM.
 85. 
CHAPTER LXXXV. LINDON SMILES.
 86. 
CHAPTER LXXXVI. THE TWO LETTERS.
 87. 
CHAPTER LXXXVII. THE UNRAVELING OF THE MESH.
 88. 
CHAPTER LXXXVIII. FIRE AND STORM.
 89. 
CHAPTER LXXXIX. THE END OF THE DRAMA.
 90. 
CHAPTER XC. A SUMMER DAY AT “FLOWER OF HUNDREDS.”
  
EPILOGUE. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE MS.
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63. CHAPTER LXIII.
A BROKEN HEART: HENRY ST. JOHN TO THOMAS ALSTON.

“I HAVE followed your advice, and made the journey
which you suggested, carrying with me the letter, and intending
to add what you advised me to add to my address.

“I write because I promised to write, though the ink
is somewhat faded. Strange! that the merchants of Williamsburg
will not provide the gentlemen of the colony, who
deal with them, something better than this pale, watery
fluid, which can hardly be seen! I shall purchase no more
of it, depending for the future upon London.

“I feel somewhat badly this morning, which I suppose is
attributable to the fact that I traveled all night, as a friend
of mine did a long time ago, when he came in early one
morning. Why, what am I writing? It was yourself—
was it not? My head is a little disordered this morning,
and my memory is bad. As I said, I traveled all last night.

“What have I written? Is my mind failing? Why, I
am writing to Tom Alston! We talked of this—assuredly
we did! I told you of this visit to Colonel Vane's, in Prince
George—did I not? I told you I was going to see—her.
I told you I would write, or I dream!

“I have this moment returned. Oh, Tom! it all flashes
on me now; I have my senses again, which were stunned.
I went and she would not see me; she refused to meet me.
I am broken-hearted! My head pains me—something troubles
me; is the weather turning cold again? Strange, at
this season!

H. St. John.”
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