89They lived in New London, Mr. Brown was proprietor in one of the first line stages established in that part of the country and was a man of considerable property. He had two daughters - Nancy and Lucy. Nancy had a piano, rare in those days, and could play and accompany with a voice which was uncommonly sweet. Her cousin, Andrew, was charmed with it and so overcome that, to use his own expression, he said, “He was so big a fool honored.” Probably he could not refrain from tears.