The Kentons

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The Kentons by William Dean Howells says that the Kentons were not rich, but they were certainly richer than the average in the pleasant county town of the Middle West, where they had spent nearly their whole married life. The Kentons' home is a great square brick house which still kept its four acres about it, in the heart of the growing town. Ellen comes to her mother and says with the gentle eagerness she had, “Didn’t poppa talk once of going South this winter?” and the mother answers that he talked of going to New York.

Ellen asks her momma what she has been saying to Mr. Breckon about her, and Mrs. Kenton answers, Nothing. Kenton, called the judge, hesitates for an instant and tells Mr. Breckon that he will find Mrs. Kenton in their parlor.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.