shadow of service & she retired
to a free-hold of her own which
she had purchased with her
savings. These had been rather
freely used by her only child & her grandchildren,
who like most of their race were addicted to the
festive
joys -- They That race seems to have been
born under a dancing star,
to have a charmed lightheartedness,
to bear them through the doom
of their lot -- Bet had one
weakness -- like the great hearts of
old, Eli & David, she knew her
peop children did evil & she "restrained
them not" -- Still with the reckless
consumption of child & grandchildren
& the merry crew they drew about
them -- her property at her death
unincumbered by a single debt