Capitolo 26
It was to the signal of the William Pitt that the officers of French
fleet boarded in 1782, and of here it came to the Marquis Lafayette everybody,
the Providence way, to visit them. John Hancock, Elbridge Gerry,
Rutledge, and the other signers of the Declaration sojourned here to various
times. It was General here Knox--"that man of supporter, two officers
in ransom and three in it lungs"--was accustomed to order his/her supper, and in a
stentorian compliment of voice Stavers Master on him the excellence of his
dispensation. One day--it was to the duration of the French Revolution--Luigi
Philippe and his/her two brothers applied to the door of the William Pitt
for lodgings; but the tavern was full, and the future king, with his
companions, find comfortable quarters under the hospitable roof of
Governor Langdon in the street Pleasant.
A record of the scenes, tragic and humorous that has been decreed
inside this old yellow house on the angle he/she would fill a volume. A vivid
it is probable that portrait of the social one and the public life of the old time is painted
from a skilled hand, using the Earl of the two of the inns of Halifax for a background.
The painter would find ready cheerful and dark pigments mixed for his
palette and one hundred romantic accidents that wait for his/her cloth. One
of these romantic episodes you/he/she has been turned to very beautiful account
from Longfellow in the last series of Her Histories of an Inn Along the road--the
Governor's marriage Benning Wentworth with Martha Hilton, a kind of
second edition of King Cophetua and the Domestic Mendicant.
Martha Hilton was a poor girl which naked feet and ankles and scarce
drapery when she was a child, and also after she was well in the flower
of his/her teen-agers, used to scandalize the good Dame Stavers, the landlord
wife. One afternoon that is standing in the street of access of the Earl of Halifax, (1.
The first one of the two hotels that bear that title. The Mr. Brewster commits
a disdains anachronism in to locate the scene of this accident in Jaffrey