Thus, without her knowing it, Miss Beekman was an essential witness and, in fact, the pivot upon which the entire case turned.
Beekman is a good-looking Dutchman; yet, I would rather have the boy resemble the good old English stock, after all.
Colonel Beekman is an Englishman by construction, and you are by birth.
Colonel Beekman was a man of strong good sense, though without the least brilliancy; and his arguments were all so clear and practical, as to carry with them far more weight than was usual in the violent partisan discussions of the period.