This is by no means the end. The courtship drags along, and they continue to "higgle like hucksters and pedlers."[627] "She said she thought twas Hard to part with _All_, and have nothing to bestow on her Kindred. I said, I did not intend anything of the Movables, I intended all the personal Estate to be to her. She said I seem'd to be in hurry on Satterday ... which was the reason she gave me no proposals. Whereas I had ask'd her long before to give me proposals in Writing; and she upbraided me, That I who had never written her a Letter, should ask her to write." So the thrifty judge, although his "bowels" did "yern toward Mrs. Dennison," must even decide that God "in his Providence" directed him to "desist."[628] Later the widow grew more kind. On the following Lord's day she came to see him in the evening, walking all the way from Roxbury. She "ask'd pardon if she had affronted me;" and plainly let it be seen that she was not averse to the match, if only she were not called upon to "put all out of her Hand and power" and could "reserve something to bestow" on her deceased husband's friends "that might want." But, says Samuel, "I could not observe that she made me any offer of any part all this while." So "she went away in the bitter Cold, no Moon being up, to my great pain. I saluted her at parting."[629] [Footnote 627: WEEDEN, _Ecc. and Soc. Hist. of N. E._, II, 542.] [Footnote 628: SEWALL, _loc. cit._, 205 (Nov. 28, 1718).] [Footnote 629: _Ibid._, 206, 207 (Nov. 30, 1718).] Then the judge turned to Widow Tilly, whom he married on the next Thanksgiving day (October 29, 1719), though she pleaded her "Unworthiness of such a thing with much Respect."[630] But the union was short-lived; for in May of the next year "a very Extraordinary, awful Dispensation" came to the Judge. "About midnight," he writes, "my dear wife expired to our great astonishment, especially mine."[631] [Footnote 630: _Ibid._, 225, 232, 233.] [Footnote 631: _Ibid._, 255 (May 26, 1720).]