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previous career . ONE alone he knew woidd weigh his conduct ancl fathom his intentions , —that Mighty Being who commands all his creatures to act justly , and who is emphatically the God of TKUTH . While this struggle was going forward the Lieutenant-Governor was carried off by " Yellow Jack" after an illness
, of ten hours ; and his successor in due time arrived from the mother country . In the capacity which James filled , it was necessary that he should wait upon the new Governor ; and on his first public clay the resolute but sorrow-stricken man presented himself before Colonel Sir Flenry Goldingham . It struck himthen and afterwardsthat the new
, , chief eyed him with peculiar earnestness when his name was announced , and twice created opportunities of addressing him , and purposely so framed his questions as to require lengthened replies . He was haunted , moreover , by a conviction that the features of the new authority were not new to him ; that Sir Henry and he had met before ; that
they had conversed freely ; and that this was informer and more prosperous days . But whether the impression was an illusion or real , Sir Henry neither by worcl nor deed supported it . He received James's unavoidable communications with distant and official courtesy ; listened with impartial ear to his suggestions , and when he deemed them
of value , enforced them ; but as to any previous knowledge of his grave and respectful subordinate , the Governor , apparently , had none . " What a regular self-tormentor I am ! " cried James , as , one morning , he left Sir Henry ' s presence after a long interview , during which the old soldier had pertinaciously
sifted a mass of voluminous accounts , but had been , throughout , unusually silent , though keenly observant—" how ridiculous in me to fancy that we had met before ; and to harass myself with speculations as to when and where ! No , no ! We are strangers . Fie has no feeling on the point , either for or against me . In this I may rest . It is a safe conclusion . "
And yet it was rather shaken when , within the next eight-and-forty hours he was apprized that Sir Henry had , wdthout solicitation , nominated him to a lucrative Government office , and ordered him to " enter upon its duties forthwith , " The surprise created in the colony by this exercise of patronage was not slight , nor much diminished by the reply which the old colonel vouchsafed to a chafed
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Silence:
previous career . ONE alone he knew woidd weigh his conduct ancl fathom his intentions , —that Mighty Being who commands all his creatures to act justly , and who is emphatically the God of TKUTH . While this struggle was going forward the Lieutenant-Governor was carried off by " Yellow Jack" after an illness
, of ten hours ; and his successor in due time arrived from the mother country . In the capacity which James filled , it was necessary that he should wait upon the new Governor ; and on his first public clay the resolute but sorrow-stricken man presented himself before Colonel Sir Flenry Goldingham . It struck himthen and afterwardsthat the new
, , chief eyed him with peculiar earnestness when his name was announced , and twice created opportunities of addressing him , and purposely so framed his questions as to require lengthened replies . He was haunted , moreover , by a conviction that the features of the new authority were not new to him ; that Sir Henry and he had met before ; that
they had conversed freely ; and that this was informer and more prosperous days . But whether the impression was an illusion or real , Sir Henry neither by worcl nor deed supported it . He received James's unavoidable communications with distant and official courtesy ; listened with impartial ear to his suggestions , and when he deemed them
of value , enforced them ; but as to any previous knowledge of his grave and respectful subordinate , the Governor , apparently , had none . " What a regular self-tormentor I am ! " cried James , as , one morning , he left Sir Henry ' s presence after a long interview , during which the old soldier had pertinaciously
sifted a mass of voluminous accounts , but had been , throughout , unusually silent , though keenly observant—" how ridiculous in me to fancy that we had met before ; and to harass myself with speculations as to when and where ! No , no ! We are strangers . Fie has no feeling on the point , either for or against me . In this I may rest . It is a safe conclusion . "
And yet it was rather shaken when , within the next eight-and-forty hours he was apprized that Sir Henry had , wdthout solicitation , nominated him to a lucrative Government office , and ordered him to " enter upon its duties forthwith , " The surprise created in the colony by this exercise of patronage was not slight , nor much diminished by the reply which the old colonel vouchsafed to a chafed