"Is it such an uncommon thing ?" "It is uncommon for you to look so nice.

You must take great care of them, Winthrop; -- it took mother so long to make them." "I have another pair, boy," said Winthrop, biting his lips, as the boat rounded to the little flight of steps at Cowslip's mill.
"Yes, but then you know, Karen -- There's the stage, Governor! -- and the folks are come, I guess.

Do you see those heads poking out of the windows ?" -- "You stay here and mind the boat, Asahel." And Winthrop sprang ashore and went up to the crossing where the stage-coach had stopped.
At 'Cowslip's mill' there was a sloop landing; a sort of wharf was built there; and close upon the wharf the mill and storage house kept and owned by Mr.Cowslip.From this central point a road ran back over the hills into the country, and at a little distance it was cut by the high road from Vantassel.

Here the stage had stopped.
By the time Winthrop got there, most of the effects he was to take charge of had been safely deposited on the ground.

Two young ladies, and a gentleman seeming not far from young, stood at the end of the coach to watch the success of the driver and Mr.Cowslip in disinterring sundry trunks and boxes from under the boot and a load of other trunks and boxes.
"Where's Mr.Landholm?
isn't Mr.Landholm here ?" said the gentleman impatiently.
"There's somebody from Mr.Landholm ahint you," remarked Mr.
Cowslip in the course of tugging out one of the trunks.
The gentleman turned.
"Mr.Landholm could not be here, sir," said Winthrop; "but his boat is here, and he has sent me to take care of it." "He has! Couldn't come himself, eh?
I'm sorry for that.