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Huntington is the center of a large group of riverside towns supported by iron-making and other industries Guyandotte and Ceredo, in West Virginia; Catlettsburg, just over the border in Kentucky; and Proctorville, Broderickville, Frampton, Burlington, and South Point, on the opposite shore.
One night she was alone in the cottage, almost beside herself under the pressure of one or two claims she could not meet one claim especially, that of a little jeweller, from whom she had bought a gold ring and a brooch at Frampton when the thought of John's hoard swept upon her clutched her like something living and tyrannical, not to be shaken off.
His own wretchedness was like a personal injury, and an offence that he could resent would have been a positive relief. He was forced to get out of the way of Frampton coming up with a tray of lemonade, and glared at him, as if even a station on the stairs were denied, then dashed out of doors, and paced the garden, goaded by every association the scene recalled.
'How pat it comes! Mary, did you prime Mrs. Warren, or did Frampton? 'I believe you had rather laugh at yourself than at any one else, exclaimed his aunt, who felt baffled at having thrown away her compassion. 'Of course. One knows how much can be borne. Why, Mary, has that set you studying, do you dissent?
I'll be a better husband to yer, I swear I will. Give us a kiss, old woman." She turned her face, sobbing, and he kissed her cheek. Then she heard him say in another tone "An' I got a bit o' news down at the Club as will liven yer up. Parkinson was there; just come over from Frampton to see his mother; an' he says John will be here to-morrer or next day.
One of the foresters betook himself off immediately, journeying on to Frampton, where he had some relatives, his visit to them being an ostensible reason for his presence on the wrong side of the Severn. He was a hard-faced fellow, with a pair of small, greedy-looking blue eyes.
Even Frampton is far from the impenetrable person he used to be. 'And I suppose they have done infinite good to the wild Marksedge people! 'Some are better, some are worse. I believe that people always are worse when they reject good. I am glad to find, too, that the improvements answer in a pecuniary point of view.
When he came back, he closed the door carefully, and, walking to the table, threw down his hat upon it. His face under its ruddy brown had suffered some radical, disintegrating change. "They've traced yer," he said hoarsely; "they've got it up to twenty-six pound, an' more. Most on it 'ere in Clinton some on it, Muster Miles, o' Frampton, 'ull swear to.
Frampton in the pulpit, they cry up so much, a young man, and of a mighty ready tongue. I heard a little of his sermon, and liked it; but the crowd so great, I could not stay. So to the Swan, and 'baise la fille', and drank, and then home by coach, and took father, wife, brother, and W. Hewer to Islington, where I find mine host dead.
French is believed to be the language in which it originally was composed, but this has not been definitely proven. More than eighty copies in manuscript are still extant. A Latin version was printed in Basel in 1532. The first English translation appears to be one that was made by John Frampton, published in London in 1579.
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