An' I do admire to have company," added Lucy Ann, a bright smile
breaking over her face. "Mother did, you know, an' I guess I take arter
her. Now you lay off your things, an' I'll put the kettle on. I've got
more pies 'n you could shake a stick at, an' there's a whole loaf o'
fruit-cake, a year old."
Mary, taking off her shawl, wiped her eyes surreptitiously on a corner
of it, and Abby whispered to her husband, "Dear creatur'!" John and
Ezra turned, by one consent, to put the horses in the barn; and the
children, conscious that some mysterious affair had been settled, threw
themselves into the occasion with an irresponsible delight. The room
became at once vocal with talk and laughter, and Lucy Ann felt, with a
swelling heart, what a happy universe it is where so many bridges lie
between this world and that unknown state we call the next. But no
moment of that evening was half so sweet to her as the one when little
John, the youngest child of all, crept up to her and pulled at her
poplin skirt, until she bent down to hear.
"Grandma," said he, "when'd you get well?"
THE EXPERIENCE OF HANNAH PRIME
Tiverton Hollow had occasionally an evening meeting; this came about
naturally whenever religious zeal burned high, or when the congregation
felt, with some uneasiness, that it had remained too long aloof from
spiritual things.
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