The Landlord at Lion's Head — Volume 2

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Title: The Landlord at Lion's Head, Volume 2
Author: William Dean Howells
Release Date: August 22, 2006 [EBook #3376]
Language: English
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THE LANDLORD AT LION'S HEAD
By William Dean HowellsPart II.
XXVII.
Jackson kept his promise to write to Westover, but he was better than his word to his mother, and wrote to her every
week that winter.
"I seem just to live from letter to letter. It's ridic'lous," she said to Cynthia once when the girl brought the mail in from the
barn, where the men folks kept it till they had put away their horses after driving over from Lovewell with it. The trains on
the branch road were taken off in the winter, and the post-office at the hotel was discontinued. The men had to go to the
town by cutter, over a highway that the winds sifted half full of snow after it had been broken out by the ox-teams in the
morning. But Mrs. Durgin had studied the steamer days and calculated the time it would take letters to come from New
York to Lovewell; and, unless a blizzard was raging, some one had to go for the mail when the day came. ...