Yes, similar instances, when Burr has run away, or done something humiliating. Like expressing a contrary opinion before one of Edward's fellows. Yet at the end he had attained his goal, gotten Burr back, and still--
"He would beat me like a sack," Burr says, and his grip tightens on Theodosia, and he lifts her up, leans her against his chest, while his other hand holds the cold rag to his eye. "Or he would shut me up in the cellar for a day or two, or make me kneel for hours in the prayer room." But usually some combination of those things together.
Yet he doesn't see what there is to be done. If the man has his sights set on Burr, nothing can be done but rebuke him. And it is likely he will stew, will ignore Burr and wait for him to come crawling back in shame, and yet--he hadn't done that, when Burr ran away. Had boarded a ship after him, threatened to drag him down from the mast and let the sailors have a turn thrashing him.
"I don't see what there is to be done. We have no recourse, until he does something truly drastic. He is very respected, Hamilton. He is the son of the most influential theologian who ever set foot in the colonies."
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"He would beat me like a sack," Burr says, and his grip tightens on Theodosia, and he lifts her up, leans her against his chest, while his other hand holds the cold rag to his eye. "Or he would shut me up in the cellar for a day or two, or make me kneel for hours in the prayer room." But usually some combination of those things together.
Yet he doesn't see what there is to be done. If the man has his sights set on Burr, nothing can be done but rebuke him. And it is likely he will stew, will ignore Burr and wait for him to come crawling back in shame, and yet--he hadn't done that, when Burr ran away. Had boarded a ship after him, threatened to drag him down from the mast and let the sailors have a turn thrashing him.
"I don't see what there is to be done. We have no recourse, until he does something truly drastic. He is very respected, Hamilton. He is the son of the most influential theologian who ever set foot in the colonies."