The Courtship of Susan Bell
She had already counted ten years of widowhood, and her children had grown to be young women beside her at the time of which I am now about to speak. Since that
She had already counted ten years of widowhood, and her children had grown to be young women beside her at the time of which I am now about to speak. Since that sad day on which they had left Albany they had lived together at the cottage at the Springs. In winter their life had been lonely enough; but as soon as the hot weather began to drive the fainting citizens out from New York, they had always received two or three boarders--old ladies generally, and occasionally an old gentleman--persons of very steady habits, with whose pockets the widow`s moderate demands agreed better than the hotel charges. And so the Bells lived for ten years.
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