Sara Ware Bassett
Flood Tide
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066178833
Table of Contents
MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE
THE PROGRESS OF ANOTHER ROMANCE
ONE MORE OF WILLIE'S SHIPS REACHES PORT
FAME COMES TO THE DREAMER OF DREAMS
CHAPTER I
THE WEAVER AND HIS FANCIES
Willie Spence was a trial. Not that his personality rasped society at large. On the contrary his neighbors cherished toward the little old man, with his short-sighted blue eyes and his appealing smile, an affection peculiarly tender; and if they sometimes were wont to observe that although Willie possessed some common sense he was blessed with uncommon little of it, the observation was facetiously uttered and was offered with no malicious intent.
In fact had one scoured Wilton from end to end it would have been difficult to unearth a single individual who bore enmity toward the owner of the silver-gray cottage on the Harbor Road. It was impossible to talk ten seconds with Willie Spence and not be won by his kindliness, his optimism, his sympathy, and his honesty. Willie probably could not have dissembled had he tried, and fortunately