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He was in requisition many of the hours when he was free from his shoemaker's bench; and never in the Uphams was there a sick man needing a watcher who did not beg for Jerome Edwards. In these latter years Ann Edwards regarded her son Jerome with pride and admiration, and yet with a measure of disapproval.
Although this was the largest of the little cluster of Uphams, the tavern was in the West Corners, and the stages met there. However, all the industries had centred in Upham Corners on account of its superior water privileges: the grist-mill was there, and the saw-mill. People from the West and East Corners came to trade at Robinson's store, which was also a factory in a limited sense.
Then they talked about putting up fruit and making jellies, and Mrs. Turner said she must go over to the Uphams. She heard that Polly was getting to be such a nice, smart girl, and had worked the bottom of her white frock and a round cape to match. Then she called Bella. "Oh, can't I go over with them?" pleaded Cynthia. Cousin Chilian nodded. Elizabeth rose stiffly and went in.
We are not overcrowded yet." The rain had beaten the paths and the street hard, and it looked as if it had been swept clean. In spite of it all there were cheering evidences of spring. "There are some children in that house," she exclaimed, nodding her head. "Yes, the Uphams. There are two girls and two boys, the oldest and the youngest, who isn't much more than a baby.
"And how do you like the Uphams?" said Ajax. The use of the plural provoked a slight smile. "Naturally, I don't see much of them," said Wilkins. He picked up an old photograph album, and began to turn over its pages. Obviously, his thoughts were elsewhere; and the sound of his own voice must have startled him. "By Jove it's old Sam!" He spoke in a whisper, as if to himself.
When the two had gone up to Boston, Cynthia felt very lonely. She had been sipping the sweets of unspoken admiration. She saw it in the eyes, in the deference, as if he was almost afraid of her, in the sudden flush when she turned her eyes to him. It was a new kind of worship. She went over to the Uphams. Polly had been having her sampler framed.
His mud-bespattered sulky and his smart mare, advancing always with desperate flings of forward hoofs which caused the children to scatter were familiar objects, not only in the cluster of Uphams, but also in Dale and Granby, and the little outlying hamlet of Ford's Hill, which was nothing but a scattering group of farm-houses, with a spire in their midst, and which came under the jurisdiction of Upham.
They looked over the old treasures in the house and thought it wonderful any one should ever go to India and return without being wrecked. They walked about the lovely garden, and he was amazed at her familiarity with flowers and plants he had never seen. Then she took him over to the Uphams, for an old friend came in to play checkers with Cousin Chilian.
Silas, see if you can't find the Uphams' man. He was working there a short time ago." "If there's more to come, it is hardly worth while to clear up," began Elizabeth. "I hope it will soon follow." Chilian directed the two men, who found it still quite a burthen. Elizabeth opened the parlor shutter unwillingly, and the men set it in the middle of the floor.
Perhaps he would give her a party. But she didn't know any children, except the Uphams. It might be better to go to school so that she could get acquainted. Chilian was a good deal startled about the black garments. "She is so little and thin," he objected. "I never did like children in black; it seems as if you weighted them down with woe. And he has been dead so many months now."
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