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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 2: the secular writers (search)
ean as sometime it had been. Jehovah jireh! [ The Lord will provide. ] Midweek, 9r. 9. Dine at Bror. Stoddard's: were so kind as to enquire of me if they should invite Mm. Winthrop; I answer'd No. About the middle of Decr. Madam Winthrop made a treat for her children; Mr. Sewall, Prince, Willoughby: I knew nothing of it; but the same day abode in the Council Chamber for fear of the rain, and din'd alone upon Kilby's pies and good beer. In less than a year later, he called on Madam Ruggles, another widow, and says in his diary, I showed my willingness to renew my old acquaintance [as a suitor]; she expressed her inability to be serviceable. Gave me cider to drink. I came home. Eight months later he married Mrs. Mary Gibbs, still another widow, and himself made the prayer at the wedding, as if the time had come to take matters into his own hands. This is not, it may seem, a very noble kind of literature; but it is, at its best, one of the most permanent. The masterp