The Banished Children of Eve (2012)
“He felt the presence of the divinity in this room more than anywhere else in the house, more even than in church. The table he sat before was as hallowed as any altar. Shipped by Andreas Vandervort from Holland to his home in New Amsterdam, it arrived in January 1651. Over the years, it had survived the Anglo-Dutch wars, Indian uprisings, the British seizure of New Amsterdam, the fires set by rebellious slaves, the Battle of New York and the conflagration that followed, the British occupation, the Great Fire of 1835, the migration over two centuries from wooden farmhouse to brick town house to here. The faces on the walls had once been real presences at this table, supped here, argued, deliberated, communed, generation after generation. Ward envied them their ignorance of the fate that had befallen the city they had helped found.
Charles Bedford bowed his head also. No prayer came to mind. He looked up. Ward was still conversing with the Deity. No wonder. A lot he should be thankful for.
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