Why, she could have married six times over in her first year here!" "She does not wish to give up her work," Mrs.Bell explained.
"Of course not; and why should she?
Nice, womanly business, I am sure.
I hope nobody'd expect a girl who can keep house for a whole township to settle down to bossing one man and a hired girl." In course of time he got a pretty clear notion of how matters stood, and meditated upon it, seriously rolling his big cigar about between pursed lips.

Mr.Thaddler was a good deal of a gossip, but this he kept to himself, and did what he could to enlarge the patronage of Union House.
The business grew.

It held its own in spite of fluctuations, and after a certain point began to spread steadily.

Mrs.Bell's coming and Mr.
Eltwood's ardent championship, together with Mr.Thaddler's, quieted the dangerous slanders which had imperilled the place at one time.

They lingered, subterraneously, of course.