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Her complexion had a tawny hue made by sun and wind, her hair was light, but it had a peculiar sunburned tint, though it was fine and abundant and hung in loose curls about her shoulders. Her nose was the only Leverett feature it was straight, rather small, and had the flexibility that betrayed passing emotions.
Uncle Win and Uncle Leverett talked politics after supper, one sitting one side of the chimney and one the other. Doris had gone over to Uncle Winthrop's side, and she wished she could be two little girls just for the evening. She was trying very hard to understand what they meant by the Embargo and the Non-Intercourse Act, and she learned they were going to have a new President in March.
And just then Uncle Leverett and Warren came in, and there was a shaking of hands, and Uncle Leverett said: "Well, I declare! The sight of you, Win, is good for sore eyes well ones, too." "I am rather remiss in a social way, I must confess. I'll try to do better. The years fly around so, I have always felt sorry that I saw so little of Cousin Charles until that last sad year."
Both of the Brent cousins were married, one living on the farm with his mother, the other having struck out for himself. And Miss Eliza Leverett was weakly. Like many women of that period, when all hope of marrying and having a home of her own was past, she sank down into a gentle nonentity and dreamed of Cousin Chilian.
And the clergy knew and hated their enemy from the earliest days; it was this bitter theological jealousy which flamed within Endicott when he mutilated his flag, and within Leverett when he insulted Randolph; it was a rapacious lust for power and a furious detestation of rival priests which maddened the Mathers in their onslaught upon Dudley, which burned undimmed in Mayhew and Cooper, and in their champion, Samuel Adams, and which at last made the hierarchy cast in its lot with an ally more dangerous far than those prelates whom it deemed its foe.
He thought the little girl knew a great deal. And that she had been in India, and China, and ever so many of the islands, was wonderful. "Don't you ever sew?" he asked one afternoon, as they were rambling about. "I don't like it much;" and she glanced up with fascinating archness. "I suppose I shall have to some day, but Cousin Leverett thinks there is time enough."
Mathers. By the same rule I may say without offence, By no means let any people say, that you go by no measures in your conduct, but Mr. Byfield's and Mr. Hist. Leverett, on the contrary, now reached his zenith; from the house he passed into the council and became one of Dudley's most trusted advisers.
Then I wished well, I wished he was in college. He wants to go. Father says Mr. Leverett has infected him with the craze." "If I was a boy, I'd like to go. Cousin Leverett is going to take me to Harvard next summer when they have their grand closing time." "I'd rather be a girl and have a nice beau." Plainly Polly had been saturated with dissipation. Spring was suggesting her advent.
Betty had been trying the effect of trailing silk and enjoying her brother's admiration. Now she folded it again decorously, and began to pile up the cups and plates, half afraid to venture into the kitchen lest her dream of delight should be overshadowed by a cloud. Mrs. Leverett was doing a sober bit of thinking. How much happiness ought one to allow one's self in this vale of tears?
'And so, my dear child, I do forgive you, quite and entirely, as we used to say, though I have settled with Miss Leverett that you had better not go up for the examination, since you cannot be properly up to it. And you must write the whole history to your mother.
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