The Circle had been founded in wartime, when women scraped lint and sewed with a passionate zeal.
I DUNNO BY GRAPES SKIN
She was portly, and her thin skin gave confirmation to her own frequent complaint of feeling the heat but though the day had been more sultry than it was, she would not have foregone the pleasure of endowing the Circle with its new accession toward the meeting-house fund. Martha was chief mover in all capable deeds, a warm, silent woman who called children “ lambs,” plied them with pears, and knew the inner secrets of rich cookery. The boarders had given a fancy-dress party with amateur vaudeville combined, for the benefit, of the old church, and Martha Waterman now, as she toiled up the hill to a meeting of the Circle, held the resultant check in one of her plump freckled hands.
This year had been an especially fruitful one. Marshmead approved, from a careless dignity, when people brought money into the town, but it always relapsed into its own customs with a contented sigh after the jolt of inexplicable requirements and imported ways. Though the exodus had come earlier than usual this year, because the Hiltons were sailing for Germany and the Dennys due at the Catskills, not one among their country entertainers had complained. THE summer boarders had gone, and Marshmead was settling down to a peace enhanced by affluence.
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