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For a time Alice remembered the good and forgot the…
The paper Alice’s father hung around her neck read:
Alice carried her workbasket to the cart, stepped wide of…
Alice would have said she never slept if the sound…
Verley returned from wherever he’d gone and came into Alice’s…
Alice clutched her basket in the fingertips of her burned…
She knelt at the foot of the companionway, the last…
Alice woke with the first sense of light against her…
The door Alice passed through on her way to the…
Freeman rode off for Namskaket to oversee the loading of…
Alice woke to the sight of dawn just touching up…
Next morning the widow’s face looked something brighter, Freeman’s much…
Alice’s eavesdropping prevented any great surprise when the Sabbath came…
At first it seemed some trick of time only; she…
The pattern of Alice’s life grew fixed; the homespun cloth…
Alice spun, and snuck pieces of bread to calm her…
After Alice had collected three more payments from Sears and…
As hard as Freeman tried to turn them back to…
In October, while out in the orchard helping the widow…
The days darkened, and Alice saw the threat of winter…
Alice watched with new eyes, listened with new ears, and…
The cold struck at Candlemas and didn’t lift. Through the…
Alice marked time by the increase in her strength, the…
Alice came to know her box well. A man named…
May came, and along with it a splash of pink…
The minute Alice entered the courtroom she felt the weight…
The king’s attorney first brought the midwife Granny Hall to…
They returned Alice to the gaol to eat her dinner,…
As hard as she’d studied them, once the jury left…
The next morning at breakfast Freeman announced that he would…
The next day Alice understood what the widow had meant…
Finally, Nate came. When Freeman asked if he were prepared…
Boston rose up ahead of them with the late-summer sun,…
The Negro girl served the widow and Freeman a good…
Alice woke on the morning of her second trial thinking…
By the time they exited the courthouse the late-day shadows…
The waterfront came awake as they walked, shutters creaking wide,…
Mr. Rufus Dolbeare and his brother Joseph blew into the…