Crossword-Solution: HARMONS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Several people passed and repassed along the private roadway in front of the Harmons' door; and nearly all of these paused to peer at Lad, in what seemed to the collie a most flattering show of interest.

His quest having proven vain, he betook himself to the Harmons', arriving there as the Mistress and the Master emerged upon the veranda in company with their hosts.

But, good heavens!--he couldn't seem to understand that nobody in our family would receive him--although he had a certain footing with the Fanes and Harmons and a few others--like the Siowitha people--or at least the men of those families.

But I do not think you ever had a single minister, or any learned scholar, in your family, or ever owned a whole island, in the Merrimack river as my family, the Harmons, always have done, since the country was first settled--and probably always shall, for the next five hundred years." To this Thomas Putnam had no answer.

But I have a headache, and do not wish to continue this discussion any longer, as it is unpleasant to me, and besides in very bad taste." And so, taking the hint, Master Putnam, like a dutiful husband, who really loved his somewhat peevish and fretful wife, acknowledged by his silence in the future that the Harmons were much superior to any family that could not boast of possessing a minister and an island; the latter for five hundred years! CHAPTER XLVII.