m that time until she went to reside in
Groton in 1833, I saw her or heard from her almost every day. There
was a family connection between us, and we called each other cousins."
Possessing in a greater degree than any person he ever knew, the power
of magnetizing others, she had drawn about her a circle of girl
friends whom she entertained and delighted by her exuberant talent.
They came from Boston, Charlestown, Roxbury, Brookline, and met now at
one house and now at another of these pleasant towns. Dr. Hedge also
knows of this charming circle, and says, "she loved to draw these fair
girls to herself, and make them her guests, and was never so happy as
when surrounded in company, by such a bevy."

With all her social activity, Margaret kept up her studies at a rate
that would be the despair of a young man in college. "She already,
when I first became acquainted with her," says Dr. Clarke, "had become
familiar with the masterpieces of French, Italian, and Spanish
literature," and was beginning German, and in about three months, she
was reading with ease the masterpieces of German literature.
Meanwhile, she was keeping up her Greek as a pastime, reading over and
over the dialogues of Plato. Still there is time for Mr. Clarke to
walk with her for hours beneath the lindens or in the garden, or, on a
summer's day to ride with her on horseback from Cambridge to
Newton,--a day he says, "all of a piece, in which my eloquent
companion helped me to understand my past life and her own."

We cannot wonder that, at the age of twenty-three, Margaret
reluctantly left Cambridge where there was so much that she loved, and
went with her family to a farm in Groton where, with certain
unpleasant school-girl memories, there was nothing that she loved at
all. In 1833, at the age of sixty-five Mr. Fuller retired from his law
practice and bought an estate in Groton, with the double purpose of
farming his lands for income, and, in his leisure, writing a history
of the United States, for which his public life had been a
preparation, and towards which he had collected much material.
Margaret's most exacting duties were the education of the younger
children, which left her much time for her favorite studies. She had
correspondents by the score; her friends visited her; Cambridge homes
were open to her; and Mrs. Farrar took her on a delightful journey to
Newport, Hudson River and Trenton Falls. Still we cannot add the two
years in Groton to her