Gayworthys’

( The ), New England household. Dr. Gay worthy. Excellent man and physician. His heart is bound up in his step-grandson in whose favor he makes a will. Johanna and Rebecca Gay worthy ; one round, laughing and fair; the other, slight, brown, delicate, serious-eyed. Each has a lover and each her disappointment and victory. Mrs. Vorse or “Sister Prue,” step-daughter, a widow with one son— Gershom , who is wild for sea-life, and gets it. Mrs. Gair , née Gay worthy; the town-sister, diplomatic and suave. She secretes the doctor’s will and manœuvres Gershom off to sea. Sadie, or Say Gair ; upright little girl, who grows into a sound-hearted woman, and brings crooked things straight after many days and much striving, by marrying Gershom.—A.D.T. Whitney, The Gayworthys (1865).