Excerpt from Chapter 13 that highlights Alice's estrangement from her New
England environment
. . . It was the harpsichord which Alice Pyncheon had brought with her
from beyond the sea. The fair Alice bestowed most of her maiden leisure
between flowers and music, although the former were apt to droop, and the
melodies were often sad. She was of foreign education, and could not take
kindly to the New England modes of life, in which nothing beautiful had
ever been developed. (Chapter
13)
