"Certainly; but," here the general glanced proudly at his handsome and accomplished bride, twenty-two years younger than himself, perhaps also conscious of his own mature, stalwart symmetry, "I do not think it requires much consideration in this particular case."
"Do you promise to live with Frances agreeably to the law of God?"
"Stop! stop!" cried Allen, looking out of the window. "Yes, according to the law of God as written in the great book of Nature. Go on! go on! my team is at the door."
Soon the bride's guitar and trunk were in the sleigh and the bells jingled merrily as they dashed westward.
Before his second marriage John Norton, a tavern-keeper of Westminster, said:
"Fanny, if you marry General Allen you will be the queen of a new state."
"Yes," she replied, "and if I should marry the devil I would be queen of hell."
The children of the second marriage were three: one daughter who died in a nunnery in Montreal, and two sons who became officers in the United States Army and died at Norfolk, Va. Ethan Allen, of New York, is a grandson of the second wife.