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There is not a finer young man in the country, nor one with better mind and heart, than Willy Hammond. So much the sadder will be his destruction. Ah, sir! this tavern-keeping is a curse to any place."
For Annie lived in Cheemaun by this time, lived in a fine brick house too in the best part of the town, and Elizabeth had spent this last year with her. And now nearly five years had passed, and not Mrs. Jarvis, but Mr. Coulson had become the family's hope. Miss Gordon had long ago become reconciled to the tavern-keeping ancestor.
One of her comrades was a very prepossessing young fellow, and Mary fell in love with him, and when she told him she was not really a cavalry man but a cavalry woman, he returned her affection, and the two agreed that they would quit the army, and set up domestic life as quiet civilians. They were married, and went into the tavern-keeping business.
"A thousand dollars, clear profit, in so useful a business, ought to have satisfied you," said I. "There you and I differ," answered the landlord. "Every man desires to make as much money as possible, and with the least labor. I hope to make two or three thousand dollars a year, over and above all expenses, at tavern-keeping. My bar alone ought to yield me that sum.
In view of the prospects before the family, she felt she could for the time at least let the tavern-keeping ancestor go on suspended sentence. The Gordons gathered noisily about the supper table, William Gordon, a tall, thin man, strongly resembling his sister, but with all her severity and force of character missing, came wandering in from his study.
After all, perhaps, the plainest course for persons of such tender consciences, would be, a total abstinence from tavern-keeping. There being many boarders here, we sit down, a large party, and a very melancholy one as usual.
The landlord, Jesse Brown, who used to come to the curbstone to "welcome the coming guests," was a native of Havre-de-Grace and had served his apprenticeship to tavern-keeping in Hagerstown and in Alexandria.
This money, however, was not of any very great value, as may be inferred from the following decree, passed by one of the County Courts, establishing the schedule of prices for tavern-keeping: "The Court doth set the following rates to be observed by keepers in this county: Whiskey, fifteen dollars the half-pint; rum, ten dollars the gallon; a meal, twelve dollars; stabling or pasturage, four dollars the night."
But I got tired of hard work, and determined to lead an easier life. So I sold my mill, and built this house with the money. I always thought I'd like tavern-keeping. It's an easy life; and, if rightly seen after, one in which a man is sure to make money." "You were still doing a fair business with your mill?" "Oh, yes. Whatever I do, I do right.
I wasn't just raised to tavern-keeping, you must know; but I am one who can turn his hand to almost any thing." "What was your business?" I inquired. "I'm a miller, sir, by trade," he answered "and a better miller, though I say it myself, is not to be found in Bolton county. I've followed milling these twenty years, and made some little money.
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