No Queen had ever a nobler salutation, and my heart warmed to the generous company.

Whatever its faults, it did due homage to beauty and youth.
Governor Francis was again on his feet.
"I have a birthday gift for the fair one.

You must know that once at Whitehall I played at cartes with my lord Culpepper, and the stake on his part was one-sixth portion of that Virginian territory which is his freehold.

I won, and my lord conveyed the grant to me in a deed properly attested by the attorneys.

We call the place the Northern Neck, and 'tis all the land between the Rappahannock and the Potomac as far west as the sunset.