-- I wish you'd sit a little more in the middle." "This is better than Asphodel just now," Rufus remarked as he took his hands out and straightened himself.
"How do you like Mr.Glanbally ?" "Well enough -- he's a very good man -- not too bright; but he's a very good man.

He does very well.

I must get you there, Winthrop." Winthrop shook his head and turned the conversation; and Rufus in fact went away from home without finding a due opportunity to speak on the matter.

But perhaps other agency was at work.
The summer was passed, and the fall nearly; swallowed up in farm duty as the months before had been.

The cornstalks were harvested and part of the grain threshed out.