Yankee Wife (1993)
Yankee Wife
“A seaman's bag bobbed from his shoulder, and a meek-looking woman followed in his broad wake, a small child grasping each of her hands.Lydia was pleased, for now there would be someone living in one of the tidy saltbox houses. One of the children, a little girl with pigtails as shiny-dark as a crow's breast, was clearly old enough to attend school. The other, a boy in knee pants, was barely out of the toddling stage.Charlotte and Millie stood on either side of Lydia— they had not been watching for the mail boat, but instead attempting to identify hermit crabs and other small creatures. Lydia had found a nature book in Brigham's study, and she and the girls had been matching the pictures to the minute, industrious beings populating the shore.“People!” Millie breathed in wonder, as though she'd never seen another human being until that moment.Charlotte looked petulant, as usual. “Of course they're people, goose,” she said. “What else would they be?”“Hush,” Lydia interceded, although it ...was peace she wanted from the girls, not necessarily silence.MoreLess
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