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Updated: June 27, 2025
This procedure has been bitterly revenged and will take further revenge unless at length a definite end be put to the family-tree nuisance and the respective books instead of being published anew, be relegated to the lumber-room of science, there to turn yellow amid dust and cobwebs the curious evidence of gross folly. But only have patience, even that time will come.
One of them might occasionally serve for a smaller dining-room, or it might hold presses and cupboards. In noble houses one of them would contain certain family possessions of which the occupants were especially proud. These were the effigies of distinguished ancestors, which served as a family-tree represented in a highly objective form.
He finds fault with them chiefly because they predicated actuality of this imaginary family-tree and fancied that the historical research of the future would have but isolated facts to establish.
She considered for a time, then turned to me, her eyes dancing, her cheeks flushed. "Yes," she said, with bated breath. "I can't do Belle any good; she only wants to be alone. What do you want me to do?" Being a Cooper yourself, the task should be easy for you; you are compiling a family-tree, you know." Genevieve gave me a sly look, and retorted: "'When first we practise to deceive' "
"Admit the possibility of any social distinction." "It is only a question of sandwiches." "George, must you be a Chartist and believe in Feargus O'Connor?" "My soul, I cannot go back on my principles, for all that the violets of your eyes have sprouted under the shadow of a venerable family-tree." "That is very prettily said. You may kiss my thumb-nail with the white spot in it for luck. No, sir.
At first she spoke with doubt and hesitation, as if she feared to make some mistake; but the moment she got to where our branches joined to the trunk, as it were, of our family-tree she went on glibly, like child repeating a well-conned lesson.
It is, moreover, true and no legend that the better horses receive at birth their family-tree, in which their parents, and often their grandfathers, are mentioned, and which they carry through life, generally in a triangular capsule, by a string around their neck.
The only statement as to our age that the facts would strictly justify us in making must partake of the vagueness of Mr. A. Ward's famous confession that he was "between twenty-three summers." As we individually climb our own family-tree, from the first, one-celled droplet of animal jelly up, none of our organs is older than we are, but a number of them are younger. The appendix is one of these.
Our primitive ancestors were mixed feeders, and, though probably more largely herbivorous than we are to-day, had a medium-sized cæcum, and maintained it up to the point at which the anthropoid apes began to branch off from our family-tree.
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