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If this could be his life, an endless summer, with a search for new plants every morning, and their classification every evening, with Asenath's help on the shady portico of Friend Mitchenor's house, he could forget his doom, and enjoy the blessing of life unthinkingly.
There had been rumors of the expected presence of "Friends from a distance," and not only those of the district, but most of the neighbors who were not connected with the sect, attended. By the by-road, through the woods, it was not more than half a mile from Friend Mitchenor's cottage to the meeting-house, and Asenath, leaving her father to be taken by Moses in his carriage, set out on foot.
Friend Mitchenor's face flushed with mingled emotions of shame and joy, and his grasp on the preacher's hands tightened. "But thee calls thyself Carter?" he finally said. "Soon after I was saved," was the reply, "an aunt on the mother's side died, and left her property to me, on condition that I should take her name.
Once, when the suitor was a man whose character and position made the union very desirable in Eli Mitchenor's eyes, he ventured to use his paternal influence. Asenath's gentle resistance was overborne by his arbitrary force of will, and her protestations were of no avail.
So it was settled that Richard Hilton the younger was to be an inmate of Friend Mitchenor's house during the summer. At the end of ten days he came. In the under-sized, earnest, dark-haired and dark-eyed young man of three-and-twenty, Abigail Mitchenor at once felt a motherly interest.
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