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Updated: June 29, 2025
Though the number is rapidly lessening, a few remain in most of the populous towns of the Commonwealth. He left Newburyport Wednesday morning for the capital of New-Hampshire. The escort contemplated to have attended on his way to the bounds of the state, was prevented by the heavy rain. It was at his urgent request that it was dispensed with.
Their bejewelled Buddhas, their incense-lamps, their night and day, were alike odious to him. Stretched on a bamboo chair, in an interval of labor, and when the intense heat brought comparative stillness, before his closed eyes came often up his home among the New-Hampshire hills. He thought of his dead mother in the burying-ground, and the slate stones standing in the desolate grass.
The air is peopled with traditions far back from the present, but with which the grave, imposing, characteristic landscape seems still to sympathize. In two days we emerged from the brown chrysalis of a New-Hampshire spring into the exultant richness of the winged butterfly, into white, fragrant fields of blossoming fruit, and the odor of tree-lilacs.
Some twenty two or three years previous to the juncture we have been describing, Arthur and Mark Elwood, by the fruits of their unremitting industry as laborers on a farm in summers, and as pedlars of what they could best buy and sell in winters, added to the few hundred dollars patrimony they each inherited, were enabled, in a few years, to realize the object of their early ambition, in the opening of a small retail store, in one of the little outskirt villages of northern New-Hampshire.
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