Figures of the Past From the Leaves of Old Journals
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— We left our lodgings at five o'clock this morning, and, after waiting an hour for the ferry-boat, crossed to Powles Hook, breaking the ice all the way. Our party consisted of Judge Story, 202 riGUKES OF THE PAST. Judge Thompson (who talked incessantly about plead- ing), a navy officer, and three ladies of uncertain reputation, with whom the said navy officer held high converse all the way. "VVe had an opposition stage at our heels, and consequently drove very rapidly; but our detention at the... ferry was so great that it was between eleven and twelve before we put up at the Mansion House. " The next day I saw something of Philadelphia, and in the evening three acts of Kean's Hamlet, which I left, with great reluctance, to attend a supper-party at Mr. !N"athaniel Amory's, "where I found every- thing in the Boston style, and could hardly believe, when I saw the jolly face of my host, that we were both so far from the land of our fathers. Here I met Messrs. Vaughan, Hopkinson, Meredith, with other notables of the city.
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