Caroline' Kipling, who had been reared and schooled in Vermont, was much more rigidly English. She had returned from her brief sojourn in England with a heavy Mayfair accent, She always appeared at dinner, in* a low-necked gown with train. She hired English house servants and an English coachman, dressed in redcoat livery. The progress of. Mrs. Kipling down Main Sweet in her basket phaeton, drawn by horses in tandem,. was one of Brattleboro's major spectacles. small trouble was added to small trouble until friendship withered and enmity grew.
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