Crossword-Solution: LITTLETOWN 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Kilpatrick, with his vigorous division, left the vicinity of Frederick on Monday; and, striking northward, he passed through Taneytown, reaching Littletown about ten o'clock at night, where he was received in the midst of great rejoicing.

There was a good deal of excitement in the Hampton Court dovecote, and a general touching up of plumage, for Lady Littletown, who resided at Hampton, so as to be near her dear old friend Lady Anna Maria Morton, who had rooms up a narrow dingy stone staircase in the corner of a cloistered court, in the private apartments at the Palace, had sent out cards for her dinner-party and "at home." Lady Littletown was rich, and her position in the society of the neighbourhood was that of queen.

Lady Littletown's friends were many, and included Lady Millet, whom she always addressed as "my dear," in spite of a pique which had arisen consequent upon the latter marrying her eldest daughter to that wealthy _parvenu_, Mr Frank Morrison.

Dear friends as they had been, Lady Millet should have obtained her help, seeing that marriages were her _metier_; but she had obstinately gone her own way, invited her to the wedding, and latterly had actually shown that she was scheming something about two gentlemen whom Lady Littletown had marked down for her own--to wit, Lord Henry Moorpark and Mr Elbraham, the great financier.

Lady Littletown's invitations on this occasion had included the Honourable Misses Dymcox and their nieces Clotilde and Marie Riversley; and, like Cinderella of the story, Ruth had rather a hard time with her cousins.