They spent a long evening; and Drusilla gratified her old admirer with some very choice music, in which she was ably assisted by Anna and Dick—Anna singing second and Dick bass.
Early in the next week Mr. and Mrs. Hammond issued cards for a reception on the following Monday. And when the appointed day came they received their “dear five hundred friends” and had a crowded house with the coming and going of visitors from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon.
And this reception was the signal for a round of entertainments given to the newly married pair.
The first of a series was a ball at Colonel Seymour’s, which was duly honored by all the family from Old Lyon Hall, including Drusilla, of course.
Then there was an evening party with music, but not dancing, at the Reverend Dr. Barber’s.
Even the struggling medical practitioner at Saulsburg gave a tea-drinking.
And these neighborhood festivities in honor of the bride were kept up in good old-fashioned country style for a month or six weeks.
On the first of July, Hammond House being quite ready for occupation, the whole family from Old Lyon Hall went there to spend a few weeks, that the General might indulge in his favorite pastime of trout-fishing.
Here they remained until the first of September, when the near neighborhood of fresh water streams being considered unwholesome, they returned to Old Lyon Hall.
“And now,” said Drusilla, when they were once more settled, “now it is my turn. Our next migration must be to Cedarwood.”