A Tory Hill Picnic and Love in Quiet Opposition
Ivory Boynton and Waitstill Mason walk home from a Tory Hill meeting house after a sunny picnic. Their restrained bond deepens as Ivory shields his mother’s illness and Waitstill plans to break social bounds to help Ivory’s fragile family. They share unspoken love, duty, and the threat of paternal disapproval.
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Ivory
Baxter
Intina
Merry Group
Rodi
Patty
Waitstil
Cap'n
John Smith
Weetine House
Waitstill
Tory Hill
Wyait
Ivory Boynton
Deacon Braxter
Fle
Riverboro
Lois Boynton
Wait
Meeting House
Jed Merrill
Loo
Jacob Cochrane
Mother
New Hampshire
Saco
Rodman
Burt
God
Father
Cochrane
Twumphrey Barker
Pliny Waterhouse
Walt
Wisdom of a Woman in a Chinese Parable
Two women claim to be the mother of a child before a mandarin. His wife, famed for wisdom, orders a test with a live fish and the infant. The true mother dives to save the child. the impostor is exposed as false. The mandarin awards custody to the genuine mother.
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China
Sorey
London
Easy Money and a Millennial Bet at Garrick Club
Theodore Hook, famed Garrick club member, would stay at the club from afternoon till morning to avoid night air per doctors. A fellow member once predicted the millennium in three years. Hook replied, If you give me a pound now I will repay you fifty at the millennium.
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Theodore Hook
Garrick Club
Hook
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