But Lovell was not long lonely, for, in less than a week, his father and
mother returned from their visit at Aunt Marcia's and brought to Lovell a
wife.
Mrs. Barlow herself informed me that "it was an awful shock to him, at
first, oh, dreadful! but he'd made up his mind to get married, and he'd
never a' done it in the world, if we hadn't took it into our own hands.
She was a good girl, and we knew it, and Lovell wasn't no more fit to
pick out a wife, anyway, than a chicken, not a bit more fit than a
chicken!"
This girl lived in the same town with Aunt Marcia, and was confidently
recommended by her to Lovell's parents as one who would be likely to make
him a wise and suitable helpmeet, and was, indeed, an uncommonly fair and
wholesome looking individual. She had a mind, too, whose clear, practical
common sense had never been obscured by the idle theories of romance. She
was pure and hearty and substantial. She was neither diffident, nor slow
of speech, nor vacillating. She came, at the invitation of Lovell's
parents, to marry Lovell, and if he had refused, she would have boxed his
ears as a wholesome means of correction, and married him on the spot.
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