Dorothy Quincy Wife of John Hancock With Events of Her Time
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I am, Yours most affectionately, "JOHN HANCOCK. "* We have read and realized how John Hancock felt, waiting, watching and expecting a letter long delayed from the discreet Miss Ouincy or the silent Mrs. Hancock. This appears prudent, for I 3 8 DOROTHY QUINCY the post was slow and the risk of capture great; with the chance that tender effusions would ulti mately afford diversion to British soldiery around camp-fires. But what a fascinating Dorothy she must have been to smooth out all the inequal...ities of mood that silence engendered. The first impulse would be towards resentment, yet we find John Hancock succumbing to the charm, potent though absent, and writing that he sighed to be with her ; that he will never be parted so long again, and that he yearns for their talks by the fireside. That fireside is before us. We can picture it with the huge, blazing, crackling logs, resting on large, glittering brass fire-dogs ; the bright, fluted fender ; the shining shovel and tongs ; the subdued, soft light from tall spermaceti candles standing erect in their chiseled silver holders and resting on the high carved mantel ; the mirror, with three divisions, mounted in black and gilt.
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