The McDonald Papers, Part II, Chapter 4: Colonel Delancey's Final Departure from Westchester
The consciousness that he beheld them all for the last time, and the uncertainties to be encountered in the strange country to which banishment was consigning him, conspired to awaken emotions, such as the sternest bosom is sometimes compelled
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to entertain. It was in vain that he struggled to suppress feelings which shook his iron heart. Nature soon obtained the mastery, and he burst into tears. After weeping with un-controllable bitterness for a few moments, he shook his ancient friend by the hand; ejaculated with difficulty the words of benediction, "God bless you Theophilus," --and spurring for-ward, turned his back forever upon his native valley.
52 THE McDONALD PAPERS to entertain. It was in vain that he struggled to suppress feelings which shook his iron heart. Nature soon obtained the mastery, and he burst into tears. After weeping with un-controllable bitterness for a few moments, he shook his ancient friend by the hand; ejaculated with difficulty the words of benediction, "God bless you Theophilus," --and spurring for-ward, turned his back forever upon his native valley.