The book Old Andover Days Memories of a Puritan Childhood was written by author Sarah Stuart Robbins Here you can read free online of Old Andover Days Memories of a Puritan Childhood book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Old Andover Days Memories of a Puritan Childhood a good or bad book?
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To this, when little girls, we were never invited; but when — ANDOVEE WEEK-DAY MEETINGS years made the need of such religious intercourse more apparent, the front seats were set apart for ladies and their presence tolerated — or perhaps I may truthfully admit any extra shade of wel- come that may be implied in the word allowed. But, little girls or grown women, we were never legitimate parts of this Andover life. We listened in these meetings; we sang with fear and trembling, lest our thin voic...es should in any way disturb the Lockhart So- ciety, which in so dignified and classical a way conducted the musical part of the services; we joined in the prayers in the half-hearted manner of those who feel themselves outsiders. When the "Amen'* had dismissed us — shall I dare to confess it? — we sometimes went out through the entry with " lin- gering steps and slow," not expecting [87] "~^ OLD ANDOVER DAYS escort — of course notl — but still al- lowing to ourselves the possibility that our walk home might not be solitary.
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