A hundred pounds in this way would be money well employed.
Even to Mistress Ann Putnam he did not hesitate to put the same question, after a friendly leave-taking.

Mistress Putnam rather liked the young Englishman; it was mainly against Dulcibel as the friend of her brother-in-law that she had warred; and if Master Raymond had not also been the warm friend and guest of Joseph Putnam, she might have relented in her persecution of Dulcibel for his sake.

But her desire to pain and punish Master Joseph,--who had said so many things against her in the Putnam family--overpowered all such sentimental considerations.
Besides, what Dulcibel had said of her when before the magistrates, had greatly incensed her.
"What shall you send me from England?
And are you really going back there ?" And she fixed her cold green eyes upon the young man's face.
"Oh, yes, I am going back again, like the bad penny," replied Master Raymond smiling.
"How soon ?" "Oh, I cannot say exactly.

Perhaps the Boston gentlemen may be so fascinating that they will detain me longer than I have planned." "Is it because the Salem gentlewomen are so fascinating that you have remained here?
We feel quite complimented in the village by the length of your visit." "Yes, I have found the Salem gentlewomen among the most charming of their sex.

But you have not told me what I shall send you from London when I return ?" "Oh, I leave that entirely with you, and to your own good taste.