Let John read this letter if you like to do so.
"Yours always and in all ways, "JAMES PENHALLOW." She did not like, but John heard all about this visit when the Squire came home.
The winter of 1856-7 went by without other incident at Westways, with Mrs.Ann's usual bountiful Christmas gifts to the children at the mills and Westways.

Mr.Buchanan was inaugurated in March.

The captain smiled grimly as he read in the same paper the message of the Governor of South Carolina recommending the re-opening of the trade in slaves, and the new President's hopes "that the long agitation over slavery is approaching its end." Nor did Penhallow fancy the Cabinet appointments, but he said nothing more of his opinions to Ann Penhallow..