[Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Thaddeus Mason Harris]@TWC D-Link bookBiographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe CHAPTER VIII 10/18
I therefore provided myself with several dozens of it, and this villain Grimaldi' (his foreign servant, who stood trembling with fear,) 'has drunk up the whole of it.
But I will be revenged on him.
I have ordered him to be tied hand and foot, and carried to the man of war that sails with us.
The rascal should have taken care not to have served me so, for I never forgive.'-- 'Then I hope, sir,' (said Wesley, looking calmly at him) 'you never sin.' The General was confounded at the reproof; and, putting his hand into his pocket, took out a bunch of keys, which he threw at Grimaldi, saying, 'There, take my keys, and behave better for the future!'" [Footnote 1: Rev.HENRY MOORE, Vol.II.p.
258.] While this was a happy verification of the remark of the wise man, that "a soft answer turneth away wrath," it is a pleasing indication of the yielding placability of him to whom it was addressed.--"The discretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression." The ships, which bore this large accession to the Colony, passed the bar of the Tybee on the afternoon of Thursday, February 5th, 1736, and came to anchor.
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