Crossword-Solution: VENNER 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Well advanced as Hepzibah was, she could not remember when Uncle Venner, as the neighborhood called him, had not gone up and down the street, stooping a little and drawing his feet heavily over the gravel or pavement.

Thus Uncle Venner was a miscellaneous old gentleman, partly himself, but, in good measure, somebody else; patched together, too, of different epochs; an epitome of times and fashions.

And I’m glad to see you beginning to do your work, Miss Hepzibah!” “Thank you, Uncle Venner” said Hepzibah, smiling; for she always felt kindly towards the simple and talkative old man.

But Now, Miss Hepzibah, if an old man may be bold to ask, why don’t Judge Pyncheon, with his great means, step forward, and tell his cousin to shut up her little shop at once? It’s for your credit to be doing something, but it’s not for the Judge’s credit to let you!” “We won’t talk of this, if you please, Uncle Venner,” said Hepzibah coldly.

Neither will he deserve the blame,” added she more kindly, remembering Uncle Venner’s privileges of age and humble familiarity, “if I should, by and by, find it convenient to retire with you to your farm.” “And it’s no bad place, either, that farm of mine!” cried the old man cheerily, as if there were something positively delightful in the prospect.