The Refugee in America Author:Frances Milton Trollope Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Why should this desert silent be ? For it is unpeopled? No.—Shakspeare. Slowly and heavily dragged the ponderous mail stage, which travelle... more »d from Utica to Rochester, in the State of New York, in the year 1825. The autumn was far advanced, but the splendid colouring which distinguishes the scenery of North America at that season, still gave a charm to the landscape. On the evening of the twenty- second of October, five travellers, evidently of the same party, held the entire possession of the vehicle. The person who, as the senior, demands precedence in description, was a handsome, elegant looking man, a little, and but a little, past the meridian of life. Beside him sat a female, whose large and sheltering bonnet and "- veil concealed her features; but her slight figure, and the thick clusters of bright curls which crowded round her neck, showed her to be young. Opposite to them, and sole occupant of the swinging seat, which traversed the carriage from side to side, sat a youth, apparently not more than nineteen, whose surpassing beauty of form and features, could hardly atone to the beholder for the pain of contemplating a look of so much wretchedness as his countenance expressed. Two men occupied the third seat, who only showed themselves to be of the party by the sedulous attention they paid to the accommodation of the others. It is hardly necessary to say that this was the same party whom we left, at the end of the last . chapter, in the act of escaping from the coast of Dorsetshire. The manner in which they so immediately found the means of crossing the Atlantic, will be explained hereafter; andlh.av.e-;..not thought it necessary to give the log-book of the voyage, from the fear that what is tedious in itself, might be more tedious still in n...« less