[Grandfather’s Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne]@TWC D-Link bookGrandfather’s Chair CHAPTER XI 11/12
But he was doubtless borne on by his zeal to do much in a good cause; and, as we have reason to think, by the attentive, though vague, curiosity of the Indians. Thus ended a conference three hours long, at the end of which the Indians affirmed that they were not weary, and requested their visitors to come again.
They expressed a wish to build a town and live together. Mr.Eliot promised to intercede for them with the court.
He and his companions then gave the men some tobacco, and the children some apples, and bade them farewell. A fortnight afterwards, on the 11th of November, Mr.Eliot and his friends repeated their visit to the wigwam of Waban.
This meeting was more numerous than the former.
The religious service was opened, as before, with a prayer in English.
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