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In the meanwhile, he renewed his attendance at the meetings of the Overseers; having never occupied his seat, in that Body, with the exception of a single Session, during the whole period of Leverett's presidency. The Board, at a meeting he attended, on the sixth of August, 1724, passed a vote advising and directing the speedy election of a President.
A bad cold or two next winter will finish her, but with care and no undue exposure she may live several years. But she will never reach the three score and ten that every human being has a right to." Uncle Winthrop sent the carriage around every day to the Leveretts'. They had given up theirs before Mr. Leverett's death.
Oh, how lonely it must be in the old burying ground! Mr. Leverett's will had been read that evening. The business was left to Warren, as Hollis had most of his share years before. To the married daughters a small remembrance, to Betty and her mother the house in Sudbury Street, to be kept or sold as they should elect; if sold, they were to share equally. Mrs. King was very well satisfied.
Leverett's affair, and he is your guardian, so whatever home he provides is right." "Well, we can have a home of our own when father comes?" "Oh, yes; when he comes." "Well, then I shall not mind;" decisively. Still she peered about among the old things.
But I hemmed some on Uncle Leverett's, and Aunt Elizabeth said it was very nicely done." "I dare say." She looked as if anything she undertook would be nicely done, Miss Recompense thought. "Betty was learning housekeeping when she went to Hartford. I think that is very nice. To make pies and bread and cake, and roast chickens and turkeys and everything.
"Yes," returned Uncle Winthrop assentingly. He could understand the situation, for he knew Mrs. Leverett's prejudices were very strong, and continuous. That she was a thoroughly good and upright woman he readily admitted. The supper being finished they went to the cozy hall fire again. You had to sit near it to keep comfortable, for the rooms were large in those days and the outer edges chilly.
The result of Foster Leverett's cogitation over the fire led him to say the next morning to his son: "Warren, you run on. I have a little errand to do." He turned in another direction and went down two squares. There was Mrs. Webb sweeping off her front porch and plank path. "Good-morning," stopping and leaning on her broom as he halted. "I'm glad to see you, Mrs. Webb.
Oh, what a luxury it was to wander softly about and read titles and look at bindings and speculate on what she would like! They had very few books at Uncle Leverett's. Some volume of sermons, a few biographies that she had found rather dreary, a history of the French-Canadian War, and some of Poor Richard's Almanacs, which she thought the most amusing of all.
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