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Joanna and Peter married and Peter came at Joel's insistent request to live in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street house. It was marvelous to see how the two old people renewed themselves in the youth of their children. Joel was as proud of Peter as he had been of Joanna. Even Mrs. Marshall's long allegiance to Sylvia wavered a little.
The first child was a boy; "Meriwether," Peter had named him after young Dr. Meriwether Bye. "I'm going to tempt providence," he said to his wife. "I hope he'll not be the sort of Meriwether that my father was. I'll see to it that he isn't. He's going to be all and more than old Isaiah Bye ever dreamed of," and he quoted, to Joanna's mystification: "By his fruits shall ye know me."