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Bean's shoulder and turned her so that she looked straight at the small group of home-stayers down on the wharf. She pointed a sepulchral finger, "That there, in the brown with the basket, is Hetty Cronney, own sister to Mis' Josiah Tuttle." Mrs. Bean clutched her reticule and leaned over the rail, gasping with interest. "Ye don't say that's her? My! My! My!"
At their home dinners, when wine and good fare had lit the fires of his animal spirits, he still told his rambling, half-boastful stories of the cow country and of College times, or laid before these home-stayers the gossip of the town. That manner of his, always more compelling than either his substance or his words, carried the plainest story; and he had at least the art of brevity.
Lessways to go up with you and stay a week or two? It would be a rare change for her, and company for you." Miss Gailey looked quickly at her old friend. "Oh! Bless you!" said Mrs. Lessways. "I've only been to London once, and that was only for two days before Hilda was born. I should be no use in London, at my time of life. I'm one of your home-stayers."
"Oh, past are those days of old and the worthy deeds of the brave! And these are the days of the home-stayers, of the wise, but feeble-hearted. Yet the Norns have spoken; and it must be that another hero shall arise of the Volsung blood, and he shall restore the name and the fame of his kin of the early days.
Sailors and old soldiers narrated wonders which during distant campaigns they had heard about countries which a Roman foot had never touched. Home-stayers, who had never gone beyond the Appian Way, listened with amazement to marvellous tales of India, of Arabia, of archipelagos surrounding Britain in which, on a small island inhabited by spirits, Briareus had imprisoned the sleeping Saturn.
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