An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr
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Lewis Alfred Henry. An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr
CHAPTER I – FROM THEOLOGY TO LAW
CHAPTER II – THE GENTLEMAN VOLUNTEER
CHAPTER III – COLONEL BENEDICT ARNOLD EXPLAINS
CHAPTER IV – THE YOUNG FRENCH PRIEST
CHAPTER V – THE WRATH OF WASHINGTON
CHAPTER VI – POOR PEGGY MONCRIEFFE
CHAPTER VII – THE CONQUERING THEODOSIA
CHAPTER VIII – MARRIAGE AND THE LAW
CHAPTER IX – SON-IN-LAW HAMILTON
CHAPTER X – THAT SEAT IN THE SENATE
CHAPTER XI – THE STATESMAN FROM NEW YORK
CHAPTER XII – IDLENESS AND BLACK RESOLVES
CHAPTER XIII – THE GRINDING OF AARON’S MILL
CHAPTER XIV – THE TRIUMPH OF AARON
CHAPTER XV – THE INTRIGUE OF THE TIE
CHAPTER XVI – THE SWEETNESS OF REVENGE
CHAPTER XVII – AARON I, EMPEROR OF MEXICO
CHAPTER XVIII – THE TREASON OF WILKINSON
CHAPTER XIX – HOW AARON IS INDICTED
CHAPTER XX – HOW AARON IS FOUND INNOCENT
CHAPTER XXI – THE SAILING AWAY OF AARON
CHAPTER XXII – HOW AARON RETURNS HOME
CHAPTER XXIII – GRIEF COMES KNOCKING
CHAPTER XXIV – THE DOWNFALL OF KING CAUCUS
CHAPTER XXV – THE SERENE LAST DAYS
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YOUNG Aaron establishes himself in Litchfield with his pretty sister Sally, who, because he is brilliant and handsome, is proud of him. Also, Tappan Reeve, her husband, takes to him in a slow, bookish way, and is much held by his trenchant powers of mind.
Young Aaron assumes the law, and makes little flights into Bracton’s “Fleeta,” and reads Hawkins and Hobart, delighting in them for their limpid English. More seriously, yet more privately, he buries himself in every volume of military lore upon which he may lay hands; for already he feels that Bunker Hill is on its way, without knowing the name of it, and would have himself prepared for its advent.
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“The very thing I most fear,” rejoins Washington. “A boy has no more business with an old head than with old lungs or old legs. It is unnatural, sir; and the unnatural is the wrong. I want only heads and shoulders about me that were born the same day. For that reason, I am glad your ‘gentleman volunteer’” – this with a shade of irony – “goes to Quebec with that turbulent Norwich apothecary, Arnold. The army will be bettered just now by the absence of these lofty spirits. They disturb more than they help. Besides, a tramp of sixty days through the Maine woods will improve such Hotspurs vastly. There is nothing like a six-hundred mile march through an unbroken wilderness, with a fight in the snow at the far end of it, to take the edge off beardless arrogance and young conceit.”
What young Aaron carries away from that interview, as an impression of the big commander in chief, crops out in converse with his former college chum, young Ogden. The latter, like himself, is attached to the military family of General Putnam.
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