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We who hold ourselves entitled to bear arms, to ride in tournaments, and take office in the Church, and who have a right to call ourselves nobles and patricians, are all more or less kith and kin. Wherever in Nuremberg there was a fine house we could find there an uncle and aunt, cousins and kinsmen, or at least godparents, and good friends of our deceased parents.
Don't know why True, I don't like them despite that they are his his godparents and all but sometimes the idea of a hiatus from this Mommy game is a bit tempting. I could dump him on them. Antarctica Antarctica. It's still in my dreams " "What about me? Willya' take me with you when you go off to the seventh continent?"
None of the matings or paternities appear in the record, though the christenings and the slave godparents are registered. The death rate was a subject of more active solicitude. This may be illustrated from the journal for 1859-1860 of the Magnolia plantation, forty miles below New Orleans.
The church was empty, save for two charwomen who were sweeping the floor of the nave somewhere up by the dark and silent altar; and when the sacristan closed the outer door there was a solemn hush, which was broken only by the priest's voice and the godparents' muttered responses. "Mary Isabel, dost thou renounce Satan?" "I do renounce him." "And all his works?" "I do renounce them."
Next morning I went to school for the first time; and whereas it is commonly the part of a child's godparents only to send it parcels of sweetmeats when it goes to school, I had many from various kinsfolks and other of our friends, because they pitied me as a hapless orphan.
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