Excerpt from With a Silken Thread and Other Stories, Vol. 3 of 3But though her husband lsaac had been in a certain sense a failure in that he had been a short-lived man when scarcely well into his forties dying of consumption, for all his six foot one and three quarters in his stock ing feet, his breadth of square-set shoulder, and fist like a shoulder of mutton as they used to say - yet Mattie had never thought of mending her broken life by taking his successor. She put on her deep-bordered widow's cap when her master (lied, and she had never taken it off since, and never would. It was sixteen years ago now, but she wore her crape and bombazine, as faithfully as if it had been only yesterday, and he. Would have been a bold man who should have asked her to have dotfed them to meet him at the church door.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.