. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . autiful hills after the Union war. In the prosperous colonial years beforethe Revolution there came to live on the Mount Hope lands in summer somegrand families whom the world has almost forgotten. Among them were theVassals of Boston, and the Royalls, also rich Boston people, whose home wasat the Mount. These people were royalists, and fled from the country at thebeginning of the war, and their estates were confiscated. The Mount Hopefarm of the Royalls was among the confiscated estates. These people fled tothe W
. Zigzag journeys in the White city. With visits to the neighboring metropolis . autiful hills after the Union war. In the prosperous colonial years beforethe Revolution there came to live on the Mount Hope lands in summer somegrand families whom the world has almost forgotten. Among them were theVassals of Boston, and the Royalls, also rich Boston people, whose home wasat the Mount. These people were royalists, and fled from the country at thebeginning of the war, and their estates were confiscated. The Mount Hopefarm of the Royalls was among the confiscated estates. These people fled tothe Windward Islands. The old Vassal tomb may still be seen in Cambridgechurchyard, Massachusetts, near Harvard College. Of course the confiscatedestate of the Royalls became haunted after the flight of its stately owners. Thewhite ghost of Penelope Royall is supposed never to have left the romanticfarms, but to have remained to terrify whomsoever might live upon theseenchanted regions of the rightful territories of good King George. In her WHAT MR. MARLOWE FOUND TO TAKE HOME. 26:. JAPANESE HO-O-DEN. happy days this queenly woman used to ride in her high chariot throughBristol, greatly to the admiration of the Wardwells, the Bosworths, the Glad-dings, the Churches, the Byfields, and the well-to-do townspeople of the coolold port. The white sail that bore the Royalls drifted over the tropic seas, butnot in imagination the ghostly form and robes of Penelope Royall. They stayedto affright the rebels, and to uphold the rights and the dignities of the Crown,All disloyal Bristol could not arrest the spirit of Penelope, which seems to havedelighted in the freedom denied to the royalists in the flesh. She was a maidenlady, and a more stately person than either Anna or Priscilla Royall, the oldroyalists first and second wives. She loved the Mount Hope lands, andespecially Mount Hope, and used often to visit the white ridge overlooking thebays, and gaze over the glittering waterways and the g
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