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Janice Meredith  Volume ii.  [Illustration:  George Washington
(In color)]     The reunion of the Merediths was so joyful a one
that little thought was taken of the course of public events. 
Nor were they now in a position easily to learn of them. 
Philemon and his troop had hastened to rejoin at the first news
of the British reverses, the remaining farm servants had one by
one taken advantage of the anarchy of the last eight months
secretly to desert, or boldly enlist, the squire’s gout
prevented his going abroad, and the quiet was too great a boon
to both Mrs. Meredith and Janice to make them wish for anything
but its continuance.  If there was peace at Greenwood, it was
more than could be said for the rest of the land.  The
Continental success at Princeton, small though it was in degree,
worked as a leaven, and excited a ferment throughout the State. 
Every Whig whom the British successes had for a moment made
faint-hearted, every farmer whose cr