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He had been the shaper of his own destiny, and had risen to high position, with the aid only of that self-reliant manhood which constitutes the life and glory of the great free North. He was the child of the North-west, but his ancestral roots struck deep into the rugged hills of New England.
It is not, for instance, in the decorous quartos of Roughhead, but in the hoary blackletter folios, looking older than they are for blackletter adhered to the Statutes after it had been cast off by other literature that one will find such specimens of ancestral legislation as the following:
These officers of Yin would be the descendants of the Yin kings and of their principal nobles, scions likewise of the, Yin stock. They would assist, at the court of Kau, at the services in the ancestral temple, which began with a libation of fragrant spirits to bring down the spirits of the departed.
Many years afterward, when the church, that contained the monuments of the Shrewsbury family, was desecrated by Cromwell's soldiers, they broke open the ancestral vaults, and stole whatever was valuable from the noble personages who reposed there.
A swaying figure in a passing gondola glanced up to the balcony of the old Palazzo Cornaro and the young girl hastily fled, not pausing until she had reached her own little chamber, looking on an inner court the only sanctuary that she could call her own, in all this great ancestral palace, she, the future Queen of Cyprus. Had any one heard her murmur those words?
Alister's love of the material world, of the soil of his ancestral acres, was, Ian plainly saw, not yet one with the meaning and will of God: he was not yet content that the home of his fathers should fare as the father of fathers pleased. He was therefore on the outlook for the right opportunity of having another talk with him on the subject.
Nothing gives one a stronger impression of old manners than an ancestral palace towering in this haughty fashion over a shabby little town; you hardly stretch a point when you call it an impression of feudalism.
She had driven in to the village to make some purchases. Her father is one Reinfelter, who tills the soil of his ancestral demesne over there near the mountains." "From whom did you learn these facts?" "From the tradesman with whom she had been talking." "Will agnosticism let you be absolutely sure his statements are true?" "No; and even less sure that they are untrue.
To demand of a Chinese or an Annamese that he cast away or destroy his ancestral tablets is not less irrational and inhuman than it would be to demand of an Englishman or a Frenchman that he destroy his mother's tombstone in proof of his devotion to Christianity.
What was going to happen? Would she faint? "I also bequeath," continued the marchesa, rising from her seat with solemn action, and speaking in a low, hushed voice, her eyes fixed on the floor "I also bequeath the great Guinigi name and our ancestral honors to my niece to bear them after my death, together with her husband, then to pass to her eldest child. And may that great name be honored!"
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