Mr.Ware noticed the expression on Henry's face and took reflection.

"I must not let the yoke bear too heavy upon him," was his unspoken thought.
But Paul's joy was unalloyed; he preferred life at Wareville to life in the wilderness amid perpetual hardships, and when they gave the great dinner at Mr.Ware's to celebrate the return of the wanderers he reached the height of human bliss.

Both Ross and Shif'less Sol were present and with them, too, were Silas Pennypacker who could preach upon occasion for the settlement and did it, now and then, and John Upton, who next to Mr.Ware was the most notable man in Wareville, and his daughter Lucy, now a shy, pretty girl of twelve, and more than twenty others.

Even Braxton Wyatt was among the members although he still sneered at Henry.
Theirs was in very truth a table fit for a king.

In fact few kings could duplicate it, without sending to the uttermost parts of the earth, and perhaps not then.