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[Toby G Levy]

        Jefferson warns Dixon that there are men looking for an excuse to
duel, and when Dixon dances with a woman named Urania, her fiance Fabian
challenges Dixon to a duel.  When Dixon says he is a Quaker and will not
fight, Fabian suggests Quoits and Dixon agrees. The next dawn they go to
the grounds and each wins a game. They agree not to play the third.

        Returning north, Dixon tries to make sense of his trip and
decides that the point was although there must have been slaves in
Virginia, he didn't see any.

        Chapter 40 begins on page 399. Mason observes the sixth
anniversary of his wife's death and then heads north to New York City.
Mason is told that he should visit the Battery and there he finds many
needful people.  He meets a milk maid from Brooklyn named Amelia who is
"without funds."  Mason perceives she has not eaten and takes her to a
restaurant where she eats not only her meal but his as well.  Soon she
is in a panic to catch the last ferry back to Long Island.

Toby