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Storrow was the centre of attraction in the gay and corrupt society of Halifax where her cousin, Sir John Wentworth, was high in power; and again she was undergoing great suffering and hardship imposed by the fortunes of war. That she was a spirited lady we may judge from a letter to her sister, in which she speaks thus of a certain arbitrary brother in whose house she had been staying: ‘I had rather live with a Hottentot just escaped from the Caffres coast!’
Another instance of this quality occurred after the couple had made their home on the island of Campobello in the Bay of Fundy, which ‘the Grenadier’ and his brother-in-law had purchased.
It happened that Mrs. Storrow was once left alone with her little children, when a notice was suddenly served on her that she must leave the island immediately, as it had been sold to them under a false title.
She was at once ejected from her house.
‘The Grenadier's’ wife then rose up in her wrath and expressed her indignation in such forcible terms that her persecutors succumbed to her eloquence—restored her cattle, and allowed her to remain temporarily in the house.
Her husband, to do him justice, was always her ardent lover, and his dying words were, ‘Nancy, you are an angel!’
The first son born to the Storrows was Thomas
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