She handled it half fearfully, and set it carefully down
again. You'll live to hate chicken; and
the man in you will rise up and demand strong drink. . A cool
gray light illuminated small portions of the stone floor. There was already a score or more of people there, some standing up and talking
together, others seated in chairs ranged along the wall. Divers plans and figures were chalked
upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for
the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The
History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an
abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all
manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's
Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend
gentleman and the principal members of his flock. He stared at her stupidly, forgetting to
guard against the tactics he had come to expect from her. I didn’t
believe him and I said so. To walk beside him, dressed akin to him,
rucksacked and companionable, was bliss in itself; each step she took was like
stepping once more across the threshold of heaven. As if he read her thought, he spoke it aloud. I have
been sitting with him ever since. ”
And while he talked and watched her as he talked, she answered, and behind
her listening watched and thought about him. "
"And what is that?"
"I have relatives not far from Hartford.
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