Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 73: what you’re looking at

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GENERAL ARNOLD’S COUNTRY-SEAT. ve | the honor of entertaining you, sir. My quarters are those of a soldier in time of war, but I have endeavored to fortify them with some of the luxuries of peace?” | “ With full rations for my guards,” said Mr. Ormond, slyly and interrogatively, and provender for all our horses ?” ; « Of course I include the retinue. with its lord,” replied «Then I accept your nogpitality,” omens aura facetiously, ° and may yo commissariat These remarks occasioned some merriment, which was increased when Mr. Ormond somewhat grandiloquently in- informed his guard that they would be quartered upon an officer of W ashington’s Body Guard, who would entertain them with a bounteorsness common to.the army ; which assurance caused the attendants to look very grave, for the hardships and deprivations of this militant branch of the republic was “Mrs. Arnold was delighted at the unexpected mitt Pt re cause of her visit was her appre- hension in reference to Alice. Horace and Mr. Ormond did the former assuring Isabelle that he would fatigued, she retired very on to her pont she would endeavor to enlist the power- On ee venaral Arnold in her inquiries, and in co-mmunicat- | ing thie distressing facts to Major André. ) of the Hudson. Its lawn was spacious, its grounds were well wooded, and its gardens yielded a fragrance which perfumed the house. From the windows of its mansion could be seen the majestic undulations of the Highlands, the somber forest, and the fertile valleys. Also the noble Hudson, near and in the distance—here a mighty river, there a thread of silver, yet glittering in its littleness, and bearing upon its bosom what ee, .ed but fairy barques. Isabelle thought it a region so conmmiclookS.com