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The reconstruction of one-fifth of the town recaptures life as it was in the summer of 1744, a year before the first great British siege, and 16 years before it was destroyed.
Monday night last, at Edgecroft Hall in Richmond, Virginia, we started with a lady who brought a pair of gold bracelets, which turned out to have been given by an army captain to his wife during the siege of Fort Sumter--$15,000!
The end of David’s dynasty came in 587 b.c. , when Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, invaded Judah to lay siege to Jerusalem.
On the last night of the siege, devout local women, led by their bishop, marched through the streets of old San Juan in a torchlight parade praying for deliverance.
The author barely bothers to characterize England under siege (he was more evocative when his settings were farther from home, as they almost always were); and the last third--in which the atheistic Maurice has his face rubbed in the rightness of Sarah's faith--feels like a denouement, not a climax.