Capitolo 27
Road, now the Court. The House of Stavers was not built up to the year of
Governor's death Benning Wentworth. The Mr. Longfellow, in the poem ago
not fall in the same error.
"One hundred years ago, and anything more,
In Regina Street, Portsmouth, to his/her door of tavern,
Clean as a pin, and blooming as a rose,
Owner been standing Stavers in his/her furbelows.")
Dame Stavers took occasion to make remonstrations with the they shining-quartered and
Martha slightly draped that it happened to be passing the tavern while bringing a
water's bucket in that, as cleanly the poet says, "the sunbeam of the change
danced."
"You the Pat! You the Pat!" severely cries her/it Mrs. Stavers; "because you goes looking
then? You should be ashamed to be seen in the road."
"Never the mind as me I look", it says Miss Martha, with a happy laughter leaving
a brown and saucy shoulder slips out of its suit; "I will ride in mine
you travel in coach anchor, ma'am."
Fortunate prophecy! Martha went to live as servant with Governor
Wentworth to his/her mansion to the Small one I Bring, looking out at sea. Seven
past years and the thin slip" of a girl" that it promised to be anybody great
beauty, was in bloom in the loveliest of women, with a lip as a
cherry and a cheek as a tea-rose--an instinct lady, one of Nature
own ladies. The governor, a solitary widower and youth, falls not too much in
you love with his/her equitable maid. Without affirming his/her purpose to some one,
Governor Wentworth invited a number of friends (among others the Turn.
Arthur Brown) to dine with him to the Small one I Bring in his/her birthday. Later
the supper that was a very elaborate was to an end and the
guests were discussing their tobacco-pipe, Martha Hilton slipped in
the room, and it was standing, while blushing in front of the fireplace-place. You were
exquisitely dressed, how you can conceive, and it brought his/her hair three
histories stop. The guests fixed each other, and particularly to her,
and he/she wondered. Then the governor, rising from his/her place,
"Played with slightly his/her it ruffles, it looked down then,