"Well, I hope he won't be out looking for you today, with me in your sleigh," said the widow, almost apprehensively, "because, you know, deacon, I have always wanted you to beat Squire Hopkins.

" "So you go back to old times, and bring up my poverty and your charity, do you?" said the widow, bitterly.

In fact there was a certain young widow, comely and amiable, who lived not far from Passy, who had on more than one occasion given me to understand that I was more than passably good looking.

" "I thought you loved a good horse because he was a good horse," said the widow, rather disapprovingly.

" "But dear Miss Emmeline, you surely do not believe one word of all the scandalous reports about him?" said the widow, earnestly.

Or am I widowed ere my wedding day?

Being tired and hungry, he pictured wistfully a cabin there, and a light in the window when he went chuckling up the long mesa in the dark, and the widow inside with hot coffee and supper waiting for him.

In the wilderness a husband was almost a necessity to a woman; her surroundings made the loss of the protector and provider an appalling calamity; and the widow, no matter how sincere her sorrow, soon remarriedfor there were many suitors where women were not over-plenty.

Nick was with a woman, beautiful, young, presumably a widow, and evidently in love with him, as Miss Dene said that she would be here at Rushing River Camp if Nick had come.

He enclosed her in a conventthe sanctuary of princely widows and orphanswhere she died in 1597.

"Never," the widow promptly and a little drily remarked.

The widow seldom or never plants a solitary flower over the grave of her lord.

This had come to pass by means of her intimacy with Lady Dyer, the wife and subsequently widow of Sir Thomas Dyer, whose years of foreign service had interested him and her in many such persons.