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Excerpt from Sarah; A Survival: A Novel
Theirs was a Puritan family. Many a Mercy, Sarah, or Rebekah figured in the family tree, many a Matthew and Jonathan and Samuel. Their men had been for the most part reliable, unbendin g, unimaginative; their women strong, domestic, well favored. Here and there had been a de parture, as in the case of wild Will Thornborough, who, generally drunk as a lord, married the lovely daughter of a travelling tinker, rode with her on Black Angel to the gates of Meads, which his father shut in his face, rode away cursing through Thornborough woods, and there shot his bride and himself. People did say it was all because Dorothy Howard had refused him, scared at his drinking habits, but, after three centuries, who shall say? Also there had been a Jasper Thornborough, a courteous gentleman of the road, and a lovely Diana Thornborough, who had left her stern husband to follow the fortunes of a gay young squire. Valiant and proud and impatient of restraint were all the Thornboroughs. There has not been a tame man among us, nor an ugly woman, Dan Thornborough was often heard to say.
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