Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-11

SO green ivy covered the ruins and
for years Great Tom of Lincoln never
renewed its sentence of exile.
Time passed. Kingly Oliver died.
There was no protector blood in gentle
Richard Cromwell. He could not WELD
the land. "EIo for cavaliersl hey for
cavalierslp In came the merrie mon
arch. Out Puritans and in Nell Gwynnl
Out crop-ears and in love-locksl Away
sad colors, only frippery is the model
To prison stout John Bunyan; to Office
slight Sam Pepysl To your blind study,
John Milton, and indite Paradise
LOST to Whitehall John Wilmot,
Earl of Rochester, and scribble your
poem, "Nothingm Yes; go Bigotry,
Your jackboots smell unsavory; enter
Prelacy in fine linen and perfumel
Procul, o procul, Libertas! for, alasl
English knees bend TO the kings mis-
tress and English voices swear, 1.-THE
king can do no wrong" Boom sullenly,
Great Tom Of Lincoln, the dirge Of free
doml
Ring solemnly, Great Tom of Lincoln,
to Colonel Brothertoft the stern COM
mand revived. Syllable again along the
west wind the sentence Of exile:
Westward hol new home across the seasi
Every day the nation cringed baser
and baser. Every day the great bell,
from its station high above all the land.
shouted more vehemently to the lord Of
Brothertoft manor to shake the dust
! from his feet and withdraw himself
from among apeople grown utterly das-
tard. His young hopes We're persisted.
His old associates were slain or silenced.
He would go.
And Just at this moment, when in
sixteen hundred and sixty-five all free
dom was dead in England, Winthrop,
of Connecticut, wrote TO his friend
at BrOthertoft manor: 1--WE have con-
quered the province Of New Neither
lands. The land is goodlie, and there is
a great brave river running through the
midst of it. Sell thy manor, bring thy
people and come TO us. We need thee
and the like Of thee in our new commu-
mites. We have Drawn enow and much
godlinesse and singing Of psalms; but
gentlemen and gentlewomen be few
among MS
So farewell to England.
Colonel Brothertoft was received with
due distinction by Governor Nicolls and
Mayor Willet. Old Peter Stuyvesant
was almost consoled that Hollanders
were sent to their Bouweries to smoke
and grow stolid, if such men as this
newcomer were to succeed them in
power.
The colonel explored that great brave
river which Connecticut Winthrop had
celebrated in his letter. It's beautiful
valley was "all before him, where to
choose" Dutch land patents were plen-
teous in market as villa sites after a
modern panic. Crown grants were to
be had from the new proprietary almost
for the asking.
The lord Of old Brothertoft manor Sc
lected his square leagues for the new
manor Of Brothertoft at the upper end OF
Westchester county, bordering upon the
Highlands of the Hudson. A few pio-
neer putchmen-De Wits, Van Warts
and canadys-were already colonized
there. His Lincolnshire followers soon
found their places, but they came from
the fens, and did not love the hills, and
most of them in time dispersed TO the
fatter country.
The new proprietor's wealth was con
siderable for America. He somewhat
diminished it by reproducing, as well as
colonial workmen could do, that corner
of the old manor house untouched by
the fire. It grew up a strange exotic
this fine mansion, in the beautiful will
derness. The "curious fabrick" Of little
imported bricks, with its peaked turret
its quaint gables. its square bay win.
dow and grand porch, showed incon
gruously at first among the stumps Of d
clearing.
And there the exiled gentleman tried
TO live an exotic life. He bestowed about
him the furniture of old Brothertoft
manor. He hung his Vandyck on the
wall. He laid his presentation copy Of
Mr. John Millions new poem, paradise
Lost" on the table.
The founder of Brothertoft manor
died, and q second Edwin, the young
Astyanax Of Vandyck's picture, becam,
the PATRON.
A third Edwin succeeded him, ;
| h)urth followed, ana IN seventeen nun
bred and thirty-six the fifth Edwin
Brothertoft was born. He was an only
child, like each of his forefathers
, The Brothertoft fortunes did not wal
ON the new continent. Each gentle Ed
win transmitted TO his heir the mano
locked Of a few more square miles, thu
mansion a little more dilapidated, thu
furniture more worn and broken, thu
name a little less significant in the push
ing world Of the province.
But each Edwin, with the sword anC
portrait Of the first American, handle,
down the still more precious heirloom
of the family-honor unblemished
quick sympathies, a tender heart, gen
erous hand, refinement. courtesy-il
short. all the qualities Of mind and per
son that go Ito grace gentleman"
It became the Office of each to be tn
? type gentleman of his time.
/ PART ONE-CHAPTER II.
Edwin Brothertoft, fifth Of that name
! had been two years at Oxford toiling a
the peaceful tasks and dreaming the fai
3 dreams Of a young scholar.