Beadle's Dime Novels No. 127: Bald Eagle — page 28: what you’re looking at

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30 BALD EAGLK. a deep, stern voice, at the same time bringing down his foot with a heavy stamp upon the floor: “ Young man, your duty is to aet, not to talk.” This stamp of the foot is better than any parade of words, ag revealing the internal fiber of the man Washington. Montagnie bowed coldly, but, turning to Hamilton, he said “] shall be accounted a miserable dupe, a braggart fool; be it so, one might choose a more chivalric and better under- stood aspect of adventure, but it is a trifle to be ridiculous for the public good.” The bitterness of this trifling struck to the heart of Ham- ilton, and he ventured a few low remarks to the commander- in-chief; but whatever might have been his suggestion, Washington shook Nis head, and continued bent over his papers in a manner that showed, however much he might rely upon the clearness and depth of apprehension of his young friend in ordinary cases, where an emergency demanded simply firmness of purpose, involving few contlicting elements, he relied solely upon his own judgment, Waving his hand in a manner that showed the conference was, for the present, at an end, he sat absorbed in his great plans long after those who had shared his counsel had rétired to rest. CHAPTER Ivy. THE SAVAGE’S GUEST, WE must now retrace our steps, and consider the position of other personages essential to our story, for, indeed, we are fur in advance of incidents and characters which must be the groundwork of the events associated with the crisis in our history as a nation, Ramapaugh was, at the period of our story, in the full flush of early youth, with the fierce in- stincts of the savage glowing and burning in a form as lithe and beautiful as that of the young Apollo, He had allied himself to the interests of the colonies, and Cconnicloooks.comn) ‘é