Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators, Vol. 13: Henry; September, 1903
Arah syme was a blooming widow, thirty-two in June - such widows are never over thirty-two - and managed her estate of a thousand acres in Hanover County, Virginia, with business ability. That such a widow, and thirty-two, should remain a widow in a pioneer coun try was out of the question.
She had suitors. Their horses were tied to the pickets all day long.
One of these suitors has described the widow for us. He says she was lively in disposition, and he also uses the words buxom and portly. I do not like these expressions - they suggest too much, so I will none of them. I would rather refer to her as lissome and wil lowy, and tell how her sorrow for the dead wrapped her 'round with weeds and becoming sable - but in the interests of truth I dare not.
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