So the Trethaway cabin became the centre of things, and, backed commercially, financially, and officially, it could not fail to succeed socially.
The only bad effect of all this was to make the lives of Mrs.Schoville and divers others of her sex more monotonous, and to cause them to lose faith in certain hoary and inconsequent maxims.

Furthermore, Captain Alexander, as highest official, was a power in the land, and Jacob Welse was the Company, and there was a superstition extant concerning the unwisdom of being on indifferent terms with the Company.

And the time was not long till probably a bare half-dozen remained in outer cold, and they were considered a warped lot, anyway..