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How he must have loved this dear relict of his military predecessor! An hour later the major strolled into the sitting-room, his arm through Jack's. "Grand old place, is it not?" he said, turning to me. "Full of historic interest. Of co'se the damnable oligarchy has stripped us, but" Here Aunt Rachel flopped in her slippers, I mean; the sound was distinctly audible. "Bre'kfus', major."
He followed her home, and found her to be no less than the relict of Prune the grocer, who, having no children, had bequeathed to her all his debts and dues, and his estates real and personal. No formality was necessary in addressing madam Prune, and therefore Leviculus went next morning without an introductor.
He lives in an ancient, rambling house across the road from my home, and he is making a souvenir collection of derelict women. Everybody that dies in Glendale leaves him a relict, and including his mother, Cousin Martha, he now has either seven or nine female charges, depending on the sex of Sallie Carruthers's twin babies, which I can't exactly remember, but will wager is feminine.
Rejoiced at the easy progress of his plan, and half inclined to believe himself a miracle of cautious diplomacy, Prosper, two days later, accompanied the manager to the cottage on Telegraph Hill where the relict of the late Captain Pottinger lamented the loss of her spouse, in full view of the sea he had so often tempted.
"What is a 'distressed relict'?" asked Felix. "'Relict' is a word I hate," said the Story Girl. "It sounds so much like relic. Relict means just the same as widow, only a man can be a relict, too." "Great-Grandmother seemed to run short of rhymes at the last of the epitaph," commented Dan. "Finding rhymes isn't as easy as you might think," avowed Peter, out of his own experience.
What reader can refuse this sympathy to one who felt and gave so much to one who craved sympathy as the very food of his soul? When Constanze was elderly and the second time widowed, she was, according to Crowest, visited by an English lady and her husband an eminent musician both of whom were anxious to converse with the relict of the great master.
Sparsit, deceased, of whom she was the relict, had been by the mother's side what Mrs. Sparsit still called 'a Powler. Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was, and even to appear uncertain whether it might be a business, or a political party, or a profession of faith.
Gathering herself, she was able to chirp: "This is a surprise!" "You know my daughter, of course?" to Mrs. Sudds, whose jaw had dropped, so that she stood slightly open-mouthed, arrayed in a frock made in the fashion of the Moyen age and recently handed down from a great-uncle's relict who had passed on.
Owing to his absence from home, his affairs fell into great disorder from which they were extricated by a fortunate stroke. This stroke consisted in his marriage to Martha Custis, relict of the wealthy Daniel Parke Custis. The story of his wooing the young widow has been often told with many variations and fanciful embellishments, but of a few facts we are certain.
Should any of my readers at any time visit the small town of Sparta, and encounter in the street a little old lady dressed in a brown cloak and hood, and firmly grasping in her right hand a faded blue cotton umbrella, they may feel quite certain that they are in the presence of Mrs. Mehitabel Payson, relict of Jeremiah Payson, deceased.
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