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Her honest master, Captain Small, became wealthy, at the same time increasing the wealth of the owners. Robert and Ester Goffe were married one year after the death of Mrs. Price.
Hugh Price never molested Robert, but gave himself up to dissipation and was killed in a drunken brawl two years after his wife's death.
Giles Peram continued to make himself a nuisance about the home of Robert Stevens and to annoy his sister, until the indignant brother horsewhipped him and drove him from the premises.
Shortly after Giles was seized with fever of which he died. Rebecca went with her brother and his wife to Massachusetts on a visit and, while there, met a young Englishman of good family, whom she married within a year and took up her abode in New England, while Robert returned to Virginia to pass his days in the land of his nativity, the wealthiest and one of the most respected in the colony. One evening, five years after the removal of Berkeley, a stranger rode to Robert's plantation.
His face was bronzed and his frame hardened by exposure and hardships; but his eye had the flash of an eagle's.
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