Nevertheless, she turned over the leaves of the folio, and glanced at them by the light of the moon, feeling an irresistible spell of interest in her own biography, although its incidents were remembered without pleasure. Perhaps we shall part in better humor, if we avoid any political discussion. I care not, I say, if no whisper of these matters ever reaches my ears again. Yet they have occupied so large a share of my attention, that I scarcely know what else to tell you. Old Salem now wears a much livelier expression than when I first beheld her.
Strangers rumble down from Boston by hundreds at a time.
New faces throng in Fssex street. Railroad hacks and omnibusses rattle over the pavements. There is a perceptible increase of oyster-shops, and other establishments for the accommodation of a transitory diurnal multitude. But a more important change awaits the venerable town. An immense accumulation of musty prejudices will be carried off by the free circulation of society.