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Title: Two girls of old New Jersey : a school-girl story of '76
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Sage, Agnes Carr Connah, Douglas John
Subjects: New Jersey--Fiction.
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ding of Marta and Lennardand helped me to finish the fine tambour veil commenced somany months before at Burn ham Hall! It was a happy, quietlitde marriage, was it not ? — in spite of the horrors around us ;and ever since both have been as blissful as butterflies, while thegroom, being too weakly for the army, joined Major MauritiusGoetschius minutemen for the defense of Bergen. But can you ever forget the funeral of Brigadier-GeneralPoor, who died of a pernicious fever and was buried in the oldchurchyard 1 Do you recall how we went to the Green to see thecommander-in-chief, the French Marquis Lafayette and thatlovely Harry Lee, who looked like a prince at the head of hislight-horse company, all in such monstrous fine uniforms, withlong black and scarlet feathers in their caps ? Oh, vastly do I ad-mire the gallant Virginian major and am glad they have changedthe name of Fort Constitution to Fort Lee. I heard him, myself,say that Enoch Poor was a rare brave general and deserved a 174
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KATRINA TO TEMPE 175 monument; but as we could not give him that, we threw ourblack and white Liberty cockades, with the flowers, in his grave. ** It was shortly after this, too, that I nearly cried my eyes outover Arnolds treason and the execution of the English spy,John Andre, just across the hills, at Tappan. Jan declares it was a cruel necessity of war, but never can 1 believe it was right 1He was only a tool of the villain who went scot free. Then hewas so young and handsome and clever! Something, I fancy,like Miss Madelines lover. And, by the way! Did you knowit was through the instigation of Captain Asgill that LennardTerheun was released from the dreadful provost prison atPhiladelphia? Being an inspector of the jail, he managed tohave him included in an exchange of prisoners. But for that theVoorleezer would never have been my brother-in-law, for he leftthe cell worn to skin and bone and more ready for the pottersfield than for marching. That was why they put him on thegondola

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