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"Aunt Patty says Aunt Betty's first husband, Captain Twiford, was a sea-captain and a widower, and she was one of the beautiful Hanley girls, brought up by old Ebenezer Johnson at his house across on Broad Creek; and there Captain Twiford courted her, and brought her here to live.
Twiford lay shrivelled up, shroud and flesh making but one skin, the face of a walnut color, the hair complete, the teeth sound, and severe dignity unrelaxed by the exposure he was condemned to for his evil alliance with Betty Hanley.
The bay captain looked in and beheld his predecessor, Captain Twiford, who also sailed the bay, lying in his shroud not in full clothing, as men are buried now, for clothing was too valuable in the scanty-peopled country to feed it to the worms.
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