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"I do not know," I said "The toill be full, and the guest house is not yet finished"

"Why not come to me?" he asked "There are none in the minister's house but e rooh the trees do too much shadow the house If you will come and let the sunshine in,"--a bow and smile for madam,--"I shall be your debtor"

His plea pleased me well Except the Governor's and Captain West's, the minister's house was the best in the town It was retired, too, being set in its own grounds, and not upon the street, and I desired privacy Goodwife Allen was stolid and incurious Moreover, I liked Master Jereave hi Mistress Percy, as pleased to be gracious to us both Well content for the h the alternating sunshine and shade, and were happy with the careless inhabitants of the forest Oversoon we came to the peninsula, and crossed the neck of land Before us lay the town: to the outer eye a poor and hold and capital of our race in the western world, the ger stately cities, the newborn babe which th, and coinia and at home, viewed the mean houses, the poor church and rude fort, and loved the spot which had witnessedand small joy, but which held within it the future, which was even now a bit in theall the toil and anguish of our planting But there were others who saw only the meanness of the place, its almost defenselessness, its fluxes and fevers, the fewness of its inhabitants and the nuold and no earthly paradise, and that in the sweat of their brow they htway fell into the du home to the Coh ood offices, never failed to reach the sacred ears of his Majesty, and to bring the colony and the Company into disfavor

We caates wide open and the warder gone

"Where be the people?" h into the street In truth, where were the people? On either side of the street the doors of the houses stood open, but no person looked out from them or loitered on the doorsteps; the square was empty; there were no wo crowd before gaol and pillory, no guard before the Governor's house,--not a soul, high or low, to be seen