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town, which appears to me to be well built and
situated. The public buildings are the largest and the
most ornamented of any in the town. But everything,
both within and without, testifies of affluence and
prosperity. About noon I took leave of my friends at
Hartford and promised to come back.
It was rather late when we reached Worcester,
where we had an invitation from the mayor, who in
the evening kept open house in our honor. As soon,
therefore, as we had arrived, we were obliged to
dress and attend a grand party. As there was a great
gathering in the town of the school-teachers of the
district, of both sexes, the house was so crowded
that we could scarcely move in the rooms, and my host
himself did not know the names of many persons whom
he presented to me. But it was all the same to me,
because it is very seldom that those foreign names
are fixed in my memory; and kind people are all alike
welcome to a friendly handshake with me. We were
received, also, with beautiful and cordial songs
of welcome and with gifts of flowers from handsome
girls and young men. Among the guests in the company
was the celebrated blacksmith and linguist, Elihu
Burritt, a very tall and strong-limbed man, with
an unusually lofty forehead, large, beautiful eyes,
and predominatingly handsome and
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