She was a pleasant-faced, amiable woman and a most enterprising house cleaner.

I remember that my first task was mending the wheelbarrow.
"I don't know what Silas would do if he were to get home and find his wheelbarrow broken," said she.

"It is almost an inseparable companion of his." The schoolmaster and his family were fishing and camping upon the river, and so I lived at the Senator's house with Mrs.Wright and her mother until he arrived.

What a wonderful house it was, in my view! I was awed by its size and splendor, its soft carpets and shiny brass and mahogany.
Yet it was very simple.
I hoed the garden and cleaned its paths and mowed the dooryard and did some painting in the house.

I remember that Mrs.Ebenezer Binks--wife of the deacon and the constable--came in while I was at the latter task early one morning to see if there were anything she could do.
She immediately sat down and talked constantly until noon of her family and especially of the heartlessness and general misconduct of her son and daughter-in-law because they had refused to let her apply the name of Divine Submission to the baby.