Through colonial doorways . e book-lizard; orhave found their way to the fireplace, im-pelled thither by some family iconoclastpossessed with a rage for clearing up; or,still more ignoble fate, have been torn upfor curl-papers! A narrator of veracitytells how a bevy of gay young girls,gathered together in the roomy old Hop-kinson house in Bordentown, appropriatedsome letters found in the garret to thispurpose, and lighting on some interestingpassages, amused themselves by readingthem aloud at what Macaulay names the curling hour. Reports of these noc- 22 THROUGH COLONIAL DOORWAYS. turnal revel
Through colonial doorways . e book-lizard; orhave found their way to the fireplace, im-pelled thither by some family iconoclastpossessed with a rage for clearing up; or,still more ignoble fate, have been torn upfor curl-papers! A narrator of veracitytells how a bevy of gay young girls,gathered together in the roomy old Hop-kinson house in Bordentown, appropriatedsome letters found in the garret to thispurpose, and lighting on some interestingpassages, amused themselves by readingthem aloud at what Macaulay names the curling hour. Reports of these noc- 22 THROUGH COLONIAL DOORWAYS. turnal revels being carried down-stairs, amember of the family interested herselfin the preservation of the letters, whichproved an historical treasure-trove. Suchtreasure-troves will be less likely to bediscovered as the years go on, and thosewho would find love-letters like EstherWynns, under the cellar stairs, had betterset about looking for them before mouldand dampness have utterly obliterated thecharacters traced in the
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