amaica came to know that Dyck Calhoun was innocent of the crime of killing Erris Boyne, and he was made the object of splashing admiration, and was almost mobbed by admirers in the
uing the Maroons, in which he said: "No one in all the King's dominions had showed greater patriotism and
ere Sheila and her mother lodged, Calhoun came upon th
iend," and at last she said, "Now you can come to
was rejected of men. I owe you whatever I am that's worth while, if anything I am is worth
ed and laughed. "You see I have to propose to you, for you've never ask
fe-for that reason only. I could not do it till the governor had declared m
er the flowers she carried were crushed
he said. "It is from the great Alexander Hamilton-yes, he will be great,
p Americans live according to British principles. With all my sane fellow-countrymen I am glad the Amer
ut you-no, I will no
ete, and when Sheila came to Dyck's plantation the very earth seemed to rejoice. The slaves
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, till one day, three months later, there came
for something of what you have suffered, sir, and what will give your lady pleasure too,
onour, I can take no ti
nder the British flag.
and St
ded. "Your lady, sir, d
f the new world has honours whic
o a place where things are better, and where I shall have work to do. I must decline the baronetcy,
said the governor tartly
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