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Parker entered the building, but Captain Zeb remained outside, stammering that he cal'lated he'd better stay where he could keep an eye on his horse. This was such a transparent excuse that it would have been funny at any other time. No one smiled now, however. "Is is Mrs. Coffin er Keziah aboard?" the captain asked. "No, she isn't. She went to the parsonage a few hours ago. Mr.
She was not at all sorry to hear something of her having arrived safely at the Towers, none the worse for her long drive yesterday. Mrs. Keziah, however, showed a disposition to qualify her report, saying: "Th' o'ald la'ady was ma'akin' but a power show, at that. She'll be a great age, shower-ly! Only they do say, creaking dowers ha'ang longest."
I wouldn't wonder if the same thing that's troublin' her is what ails me." "But what is it? Why don't you tell me?" "I'm goin' to tell you, Keziah. That's what I come here for. "Sit down, can't you? Don't stand up there like a lighthouse, shuttin' out the whole broadside of the room. You are the BIGGEST thing!"
Some of his rivals in business, repeating this remark, smiled and added that he had been "helping himself" ever since. Mr. Stone had "washed his hands" of his cousin, Keziah Coffin, or thought he had. After her brother Solomon died she had written to him, asking him to find her a position of some kind in Boston. "I don't want money, I don't want charity," wrote Keziah. "What I want is work.
Preferably her cousin Keziah from the Towers. But she must see her and know that she was available. Tom Kettering, just departing for the Towers, was caught in time for Ruth to accompany him. On her arrival, finding that Keziah was available, she arranged to walk with her to Denby's Farm, and then on to the Cottage. Under six miles, all told! that was nothing. But there was no need for this.
"Didn't seem to me so," declared Gaius Winslow. "I thought he was lookin' at Cap'n Hammond." "Well, now, that's queer," put in Mrs. Parker, the doctor's wife. "I would have sworn he was looking at Keziah Coffin." Captain Zebedee grinned. "I cal'late you're all right," he observed. "I wouldn't wonder if he was lookin' at all of 'em."
Keziah, if she did not know how matters stood betwixt them, knew enough to have a very shrewd suspicion of it. She had been in some sort Cherry's confidante. Both the sisters had some knowledge of each other's secret.
At the Daniels's door Keziah turned her new charge over to Matilda Snow, the hired girl. It was an indication of the family's social position that they kept "hired help." This was unusual in Trumet in those days, even among the well to do. "Good night," said the young man, extending his hand. "Good night, Miss or is it Mrs. Coffin?" "Mrs. Good night." "She's a widow," explained Matilda.
Grace dodged back from the window and hastily began donning her hat and jacket. "It's Cap'n Elkanah," she whispered. "I must go. This seems to be your busy morning, Aunt Keziah. I" here she choked again "really, I didn't know you were so popular." Keziah opened the door. Captain Elkanah Daniels, prosperous, pompous, and unbending, crossed the threshold.
But their being black is a convenience; because, as long as we are green and they black, we have a superiority that can never be taken from us. Don't you see now?" "Oh yes, I see exactly," said the colonel. "Now that Keziah Cricket, who just came in here, is quite a musician, and her old father plays the violin beautifully; by the way, we might engage him for our orchestra."
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