Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Philly and Kit, or Life and Raiment
Look at that sleep, now. With your doors bolted, and your strong name acting sentinel, do you slumber more securely? Is your solitude more silent? True, her little girl is by her side - little J ess, her grand daughter - the child of her daughter J essie, who is dead. And hundreds of carts, carriages, and stages, go up and down before her, hour after hour, and men and women, numberless, pass by, but she is blind, and deaf, and dumb, in the soundness of her slumber.
Even when she is awake she is almost as much alone as now. If addressed, she hears and answers -if any one stops at her stand, she sees - if the price of anything is asked, she hears. If it begins to rain, she raises the big umbrella which protects her goods. If J ess speaks, she answers, but she comes out of her abstractions and returns to them again like one pledged to their semce.
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