She noted the faint shadows under the eyes, the
increased whiteness of the temples, the unconscious traces of pain
which sometimes played about the dimpled corners of the mouth, and
watched her daughter with a silent, tender solicitude.
The wedding of Moses was a severe test of Asenath's strength, but
she stood the trial nobly, performing all the duties required by
her position with such sweet composure that many of the older
female Friends remarked to Abigail, "How womanly Asenath has
grown!" Eli Mitchenor noted, with peculiar satisfaction, that the
eyes of the young Friends--some of them of great promise in the
sect, and well endowed with worldly goods--followed her admiringly.
"It will not be long," he thought, "before she is consoled."
Fortune seemed to favor his plans, and justify his harsh treatment
of Richard Hilton. There were unfavorable accounts of the young
man's conduct. His father had died during the winter, and he
was represented as having become very reckless and dissipated.
These reports at last assumed such a definite form that Friend
Mitchenor brought them to the notice of his family.
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