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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Incurridgement" to wedlock was given bachelors in many towns by the assignment to them upon marriage of home-lots to build upon. In Medfield there was a so-called Bachelor's Row, which had been thus assigned.
He belonged to a master who resided at a small plantation of Indians about six miles distant. His master had gone with a war party to make an attack upon Medfield, and his mistress, with woman's tender heart, had brought him to see his mother. The interview was short and full of anguish. The next day the Indians returned from the destruction of Medfield.
And I don't know where to go, either," she ended, with a worried look. "How would you like to go to New York?" he said, eagerly. She shook her head: "I've got a lot of friends in this neighborhood. But there's a two-family house on Ash Street " "Say," said Jacky, in the hall; "I got " "Oh, but you must leave Medfield!" he protested; "she" that "she" made him wince "she may try to hunt you up."
Then she gave Jacky a cooky, which he ate thoughtfully. "We have 'em nicer at our house," he said. On the corner, waiting for the Medfield car, Edith offered a friendly hand, which he refused to notice. The humiliation of being taken home, "by a woman!" was scorching his little pride.
For, as he listened, his face darkened with understanding. "The river? In Medfield? But, why ?" "Edith says you and she had a good deal of sentiment about the river, and " "At six o'clock, on a March evening?" said Maurice. He put his hands in his pockets and began to walk up and down. Mrs.
"I'll do what I did last year hang around here, and go to the ball games, and come up to Green Hill for Sundays." He was acutely anxious to have her go. She was silent. "Why does he want to be alone?" she thought; "why unless he goes over to Medfield?" Then, in sudden decision, she said to herself, "I will find out why, to-day!"
Of course there wasn't any woman!... But, at any rate, he had interests in Medfield that he did not tell her about. She hinted this to him at breakfast the next morning. She had not meant to speak of it; she knew she would be sorry if she did. At any rate, she was not often publicly bitter to Maurice. This time, however, she was.
But though his spiritual disgust for what he called, in his own mind, "the whole hideous business," did not lessen, he did, later, through the pressure of those heavy words, "my own fault," go to see Lily she had taken a little house out in Medfield just to put down on the table, awkwardly, an envelope with some bills in it.
It isn't poor Maurice who ought to be considered, nor that sad, tragic old Eleanor; nor the dreadful person in Medfield. But just that little child whom Maurice has brought into the world." "Do you mean," her husband said, aghast, "that if Eleanor saw fit to divorce him, you think he should marry this 'Lily, so that he could get the child?" She did shrink at that. "Well " she hesitated.
So Maurice, sitting at his desk that next day, answering a client on the telephone, or making an appointment to go and "look at a house," was really feeling in his heart not love, of course, but a consciousness of his own relation to that little flushed, suffering body out in the contagious ward of the hospital in Medfield. "Will he pull through?" Maurice asked himself.
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