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In the interim, all the States were at liberty to prohibit it. Both sides deprecated the slave trade in the most pointed terms; on one side it was pathetically lamented, by Mr. Nason, Major Lusk, Mr. Neal, and others, that this Constitution provided for the continuation of the slave trade for 20 years. On the other, the honorable Judge Dana, Mr. Gen. Heath. Mr.
A trunk had come, and as she busied herself to help Aunt Susan get supper under way before she changed her dress, she was morally sure Miss Nason would appear in a gown fit for a state dinner. But when she was dressed and went out on the porch where her guests were, she found Miss Blanch attired in a white muslin, severe in its simplicity.
When the evening was nearing its close Frank begged Alice to sing, but she at first declined. "Do you play or sing, Miss Nason?" she asked cautiously. "Oh, please don't be afraid of me," was the answer, "I never touched a piano in my life. Once in a while I join in the chorus, as they say, for my own amusement and the amazement of others, but that is all."
"Oh, she's nice enough," answered Alice, "only it is just as well to let her see I need a little urging." Three more days of Alice's visit in Boston had passed, and quickly to her. Blanch had kept her threat, and literally taken possession of her new friend, and installed her in the guest room of the Nason residence. Then she set out to entertain Alice to the best of her ample ability.
With "Old Nick" Frye the eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not get caught," outweighed all the rest. John Nason, one of his principal clients, was a wealthy and successful merchant, and both proud and fond of his only son.
Nason, who, it may be observed, was a man that went about business as a woodcutter chops a tree, said: "Are you under contract or obligation to remain with Mr. Frye any specified time, Mr.
It must be admitted that this same Alice, whose picture had so interested him, was the attraction which made young Nason glad to accept his friend's cordial invitation, and then he really felt a very warm friendship for that friend. It is likely that the perfect sincerity and wholesome ideas of Albert attracted and held his rather more pliable and easy-going nature.
"I won't believe he told Amos he was worth a million," she said to herself, "he isn't so stupid as that; but I am afraid the silly boy did give him five dollars, which has started all this gossip." When Aunt Susan came in she fairly pounced upon her. "Why haven't you told me, auntie, about all this gossip that's going the rounds regarding Mr. Nason and myself? I know you have heard it."
In an instant it occurred to him that it would hurt her now to know it, and that he had best keep it to himself. "I am very busy these days, sis," he replied, "and my mind is all taken up with work. Mr. Nason's business is increasing and I have a good many clients besides him." Then as if to draw her out, he added: "How did you like Blanch Nason?"
Phœbe refrained from questioning the man about the story but as she sat under the arbor and afterwards, as she started up the street of the little town, she wondered over and over how a boy could be the son of a soldier and hate the flag, and whether the story Old Aaron told her was the story of himself and Nason.
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