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One was uncomfortable and embarrassed and Briarean-handed in her presence, but with her absence came the overwhelming desire of seeing her again. After a little, it was quite understood that one was in love with Anne Willoughby.... It was a matter of minor importance that her father was the wealthiest man in Fairhaven, and that one's mother was poor.
But from force of former habit we greeted each other by our first names, and he suspiciously accepted a cigar. Then, after fixing me both with his eyes and with his eye-glasses and swearing me to secrecy, he began abruptly. "Our mills," he said, "are in New Bedford; and I own several small cottages there and in Fairhaven. I rent them out at a moderate rate.
He also reduced part of the towns of Bedford and Fairhaven to ashes, in which some military and naval stores had been collected. The troops re-embarked the next day, before the militia could be assembled in sufficient force to oppose them, and sailed to Martha's Vineyard, where they destroyed several vessels, and some salt works, and levied a heavy contribution of live stock on the inhabitants.
Two or three miles to the south there is another lakelet called Fairhaven Bay, the south branch of the river flowing through it, quite equal in its way to Walden, or to an Irish lake, for that matter.
The altruistic millionaire is a necessity of progress he does magnificent things, which the many will not and can not do. So we find the model town of Fairhaven molded and fashioned by her First Citizen. Everywhere are the marks of his personality, and the tangible signs of his good taste.
When Lady Agatha had finished Miss Pringle said: "I suppose that you can prove that you are really Lady Agatha Fairhaven?" For answer Lady Agatha went to one of her trunks and opened it. She drew therefrom a letter, and passed it over without a word. As Miss Pringle read it, her face lighted up. She did not lose her primness, but her suspicion seemed altogether to depart.
A hundred years ago Fairhaven had a dozen men or more who, with an auger, an adz, a broadax and a drawshave, could build a boat or a house warranted to outlast the owner. I had tea in this house where H. H. Rogers was born and where his boyhood days were spent.
The cost of my new vessel was $553.62 for materials, and thirteen months of my own labor. I was several months more than that at Fairhaven, for I got work now and then on an occasional whale-ship fitting farther down the harbor, and that kept me the overtime.
"Fort Wadsworth, New York Harbor, January 7th, 1874. "Mr. John S.C. Abbott, Fairhaven, Conn. "Dear Sir: "I have just read your interesting life of Kit Carson, and write to give you a short account of his last sickness and death. I first met him at the house of a mutual friend, not far from Fort Lyon, C.T., late in the Fall of 1867.
One of the soldiers seed me and he hollers 'look at that rat run'." Missus Ann, and all the white folks went down to Fairhaven wharf to see dat big shep". "I stayed on de plantation awhile after de war and heped de Missus in de house. Den I went away". "Ise had eight chillun. Den his brother died too. I said he ought ter died instid o his brother." "Why?"
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