colfords

Updated: May 4, 2025

Cromartin now bustled in, accompanied by her two daughters slim, awkward girls, both dressed alike in high waists and short frocks; and after them the Bunsbys, father, mother, and son all smiles, the last a painfully thin young lawyer, in a low collar and a shock of whitey-brown hair, "looking like a patent window-mop resting against a wall," so Lucy described him afterward to Martha when she was putting her to bed; and finally the Colfords and Bronsons, young and old, together with Pastor Dellenbaugh, the white-haired clergyman who preached in the only church in Warehold.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - Tides of Barnegat