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Mrs Archer and her son and daughter, like every one else in New York, kneho these privileged beings were: the Dagonets of Washington Square, who calish county fas, who had intermarried with the descendants of Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-revolutionary es to several s survived only in the person of two very old but lively Miss Lannings, who lived cheerfully and reonets were a considerable clan, allied to the best names in Baltimore and Philadelphia; but the van der Luydens, who stood above all of theht, froed; those of Mr and Mrs Henry van der Luyden

Mrs Henry van der Luyden had been Louisa Dagonet, and her hter of Colonel du Lac, of an old Channel Island faht under Cornwallis and had settled in Maryland, after the ith his bride, Lady Angelica Trevenna, fifth daughter of the Earl of St Austrey The tie between the Dagonets, the du Lacs of Maryland, and their aristocratic Cornish kinsfolk, the Trevennas, had always remained close and cordial Mr and Mrs van der Luyden hadvisits to the present head of the house of Trevenna, the Duke of St Austrey, at his country-seat in Cornwall and at St Austrey in Gloucestershire; and his Grace had frequently announced his intention of so their visit (without the Duchess, who feared the Atlantic)

Mr and Mrs van der Luyden divided their time between Trevenna, their place in Maryland, and Skuytercliff, the great estate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and of which Mr van der Luyden was still "Patroon" Their large solemn house in Madison Avenue was seldom opened, and when they came to town they received in it only their o withat the door of the Brown coupe "Louisa is fond of you; and of course it's on account of dear May that I' this step--and also because, if we don't all stand together, there'll be no such thing as Society left"