...o on. He was at a loss to account for this until his last visit to the banker, when Torlonia, taking him aside, said, Pray tell me, is it not true that you are a grandson of the great Washington? Mr. Irving had in early life given offense to the descendants of old Dutch families in New York bly the publication of Knickerbocker's History of New York, in which he had presented some of their forbears in a ...