 | Peter Ross - Scots - 1896 - 476 pages
...Drummond was led a prisoner to the presence of Berkeley, that cowardly braggadocio said, exultingly: " You are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. You shall be hanged in half an hour." Glorifying in the part he had taken in the movement for individual... | |
 | Maud Wilder Goodwin - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1896 - 358 pages
...colony, as the name of an honest man." " Mr. Drummond," answered the Governor with a terrible politeness, "you are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. You shall be hanged in half an hour ! " " As Your Excellency pleases ! " rejoined the prisoner, as... | |
 | Dabney Herndon Maury - Virginia - 1896 - 276 pages
...death. Drummond. — When William Drummond was led in, Sir William made him a low bow, and said, " You are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. You shall be hanged in half an hour." Bland. — Giles Bland, who had been captured sometime before,... | |
 | Henry Mann - United States - 1896 - 352 pages
...the first governor of North Carolina. When Drummond was brought before him the governor said : ' ' You are very welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ; you shall be hanged in half an hour. ' ' Drummond calmly answered : " I expect no mercy from you.... | |
 | F. J. STIMSON - 1896 - 378 pages
...went to the shore and saluted him with a courtly bow, and said, “Mr. Ingram, you are very unwelcome; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Ingram, you shall be hanged in half an hour!” But on this day Courtenay only wanted to escape the... | |
 | Frederic Jesup Stimson - Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 - 1896 - 376 pages
...went to the shore and saluted him with a courtly bow, and said, " Mr. Ingram, you are very unwelcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Ingram, you shall be hanged in half an hour ! " But on this day Courtenay only wanted to escape the... | |
 | Charles Morris - United States - 1897 - 638 pages
...fell into Berkeley's hands. " You are very welcome, Mr. Drummond," said the vindictive governor. " I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. You shall be hanged in half an hour." And he was. " God has been the rebellion of Bacon the descendants... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - United States - 1898 - 688 pages
...them with a positive ferocity. He greeted the prisoner with a low bow. " Mr. Drunimond," he said, " you are very welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, ygu shall be hanged in half an hour." Drummond answered with courage and dignity, " What your honor... | |
 | Hélène Adeline Guerber - History - 1898 - 366 pages
...die. Once, when a prisoner whom he particularly hated was brought before him, he angrily cried : " You are very welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia; you shall be hanged in half an hour." This prisoner was executed, and so many others shared his fate... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1898 - 654 pages
...are very welcome," exulted Berkeley, with a low bow, on meeting William Drummond, as his prisoner ; " I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ; yon shall be hanged in half an hour." The patriot, on the twentieth of January, 1677, avowing the... | |
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Mr. Drummond! You are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour... 
