You can put more savor and unction into it than I can." "Then let it be understood that I'm the guide and expounder," laughed Charteris.
"He has a great pride in his city, and it won't suffer from his telling," said Master Benjamin.
They were now in Nassau Street near the improvised theater, and many other link boys, holding aloft their torches, were preceding their masters and mistresses.

Heavy coaches were rolling up, and men and women in gorgeous costumes were emerging from them.

The display of wealth was amazing for a town in the New World, but Mr.Hardy and his company quickly went inside and obtained their seats, from which they watched the fashion of New York enter.

Charteris knew them all, and to many of them he was related.
The number of De Lanceys was surprising and there was also a profusion of Livingstons, the two families between them seeming to dominate the city, although they lived in bitter rivalry, as Charteris whispered to Robert.

There were also Wattses and Morrises and Crugers and Waltons and Van Rensselaers, Van Cortlandts and Kennedys and Barclays and Nicolls and Alexanders, and numerous others that endured for generations in New York.