Word: butterfields
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...Poor Butterfield was not in his element at the reception given by Mrs. De Sorosis. Although the variety of costume worn on that occasion made his double-breasted jacket less conspicuous than it would have been at most evening entertainments of a like character, still he began to feel that Boston was different from Saug Centre. His boots seemed larger than they had ever been before, his Sunday purple and fine linen seemed less purple and less fine than usual - in other words, he became aware for the first time that Saug Centre was not the "Hub" but that Boston...
...evening after the arrival of the Butterfields was the evening set apart by Mrs. De Sorosis for her weekly reception; the household in consequence was in a state of excitement. Every one had an air of pleased excitement as though something of importance were momentarily expected to take place. Mrs. Butterfield, who was still at her toilet table arranging a bit of Spanish lace about her neck, was being put to considerable anxiety in her endeavor to hide her rather prominent Adam's apple and at the same time conceal the neck of her dress which was made to wear...
Arrangements had been made with an aunt of Mrs. Butterfield, a certain Mrs. De Sorosis, by which that lady was to entertain these Western friends during their stay in Boston...
...will not detain you with an account of the uninteresting journey from Saug Centre to Boston, except to tell you that Mrs. Butterfield told me after the journey was over that she should never wear her black "alpaca" again to travel in. On their arrival in Boston they were met at the station by Mrs. De Sorosis and her niece Asphyxia, and escorted thence to the home of Mrs. De Sorosis at the South...
...Sorosis, who was the sister of Mrs. Butterfield's father, had, in her girlhood, displayed some talent in the way of religious poetry, and after leaving Pennsylvania, and having both time and money at her disposal, she renewed her communings with the Muses and published the results to her great satisfaction in that hebdomadal sheet which assists at digestion of fish-balls and brown-bread in many a Boston household every Sunday morning...