And, within a quarter of an hour, she, arrayed in a hurried calling costume, was spreading the news along the main road.

The "Trumet Daily Advertiser" had, so to speak, issued an extra.
Thus the new minister came to Trumet and thus Keziah Coffin became his housekeeper.

She entered upon her duties with the whole-hearted energy peculiar to her.

She was used to hard work, and, as she would have said, felt lonesome without it.

She cleaned that parsonage from top to bottom.
Every blind was thrown open and the spring sunshine poured in upon the braided mats and the rag carpets.