She ain't had a new dress for a month, pretty near, and here's a young and good-lookin' parson heavin' in sight.

Maybe Cap'n Elkanah would think a minister was high-toned enough even for Annabel to marry." "He's only twenty-three, they say," remarked Grace, a trifle maliciously.

"Perhaps she'll adopt him." Annabel was the only child of Captain Elkanah Daniels, who owned the finest house in town.

She was the belle of Trumet, and had been for a good many years.
Keziah laughed.
"Well," she said, "anyhow I've got to go.

Maybe I'll like Boston first rate, you can't tell.