The Body in the Belfry (2011)
“Leading the group that opposed the action was Millicent Revere McKinley, great-great-great-granddaughter of a distant cousin of Paul Revere. It was this progenitor, Ezekiel Revere, who had cast the original bell.
“I don’t know what Grandfather would have said,” Millicent remarked in a slightly sad but firm tone that went straight to the hearts of many of her listeners—in the post office, the library, the checkout line at the Shop and Save. Wherever she could gather a crowd. Faith grew accustomed to dead silence and slightly guilty smiles when she entered these places.
Millicent wasn’t smiling, though. It was her belief that Faith could have run down the hill as quickly as possible and then screamed loudly. Millicent did grudgingly admit that screaming from the top of the hill, however therapeutic, would have been useless.
After the grandfather line, she would generally add, “It’s just not going to be the same on Patriot’s Day when we sound the real alarm,” and drift out of whatever pu...blic site she happened to be in toward home.MoreLess
“I don’t know what Grandfather would have said,” Millicent remarked in a slightly sad but firm tone that went straight to the hearts of many of her listeners—in the post office, the library, the checkout line at the Shop and Save. Wherever she could gather a crowd. Faith grew accustomed to dead silence and slightly guilty smiles when she entered these places.
Millicent wasn’t smiling, though. It was her belief that Faith could have run down the hill as quickly as possible and then screamed loudly. Millicent did grudgingly admit that screaming from the top of the hill, however therapeutic, would have been useless.
After the grandfather line, she would generally add, “It’s just not going to be the same on Patriot’s Day when we sound the real alarm,” and drift out of whatever pu...blic site she happened to be in toward home.MoreLess
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