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Book Excerpt: She had alreadycounted ten years of widowhood, and her children had grown to beyoung women beside her at the time of which I am now about to speak.Since that sad day on which they had left Albany they had livedtogether at the cottage at the Springs. In winter their life hadbeen lonely enough; but as soon as the hot weather began to drivethe fainting citizens out from New York, they had always receivedtwo or three boarders--old ladies generally, and occasionally an oldgentleman--persons of very steady habits, with whose pockets thewidow's moderate demands agreed better than the hotel charges. Andso the Bells lived for ten years.That Saratoga is a gay place in July, August, and September, theworld knows well enough. To girls who go there with trunks full ofmuslin and crinoline, for whom a carriage and pair of horses isalways waiting immediately after dinner, whose fathers' pockets arebursting with dollars, it is a very gay place. Dancing andflirtations come as a matter of course, and matrRead More
