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Updated: June 28, 2025
He spoke of his recovered grand-child by name, and he dealt with the whole subject of her captivity among the heathen, and her restoration to the foot of the altar, with the fervor of one who saw the wise decrees of Providence in the event, and with a tenderness of sentiment that age was far from having extinguished.
"What," sez he, "is she engaged to another?" "Who?" sez I, turnin' like lightnin' and facin' him. "Why, Miss Smith, your niece or grand-child who is with you. That beauchious creature!" sez he. "Faithful Smith!" sez I faintly, "is she the one you are talkin' about?" "Yes," sez he, "your grand-daughter, is she not?"
Thou wilt find him on board the Minerva frigate; no doubt he will not be denied. Stop these few lines will aid thy request. Addio, signorina." "And may I carry hope with me, Eccellenza? Think how sweet life is to those who have passed their days so long in affluence and honor. It would be like a messenger from heaven for a grand-child to bring but a ray of hope." "I authorize none.
Amrei held the coin fast in her palm, nodded to the old man, and said to the young couple: "I have the promise and an earnest of payment; your deceased mother always promised me that I should serve her, and that no one else should be nurse to her first grand-child." "Yes, my wife always wished it," said the old farmer approvingly.
Pomfret was willing to teach you. For if anything was t' happen, it's well to know how to turn your hand to different sorts o' things. But I niver meant you to go to service, my wench; my family's ate their own bread and cheese as fur back as anybody knows, hanna they, Father? You wouldna like your grand-child to take wage?"
"It is of moment!" sez I, "she is uncle Leander Smith's own child, and though she is a few years younger than I be, it has always been said and thought all over Jonesville and Loontown that I hold my age to a remarkable extent. And though I think my eyes of Faith I won't thank you or anyone else for callin' her my grand-child!" "But yet," sez he, "that's a tender, sweet relationship.
Oh, an old servant or a child, or possibly a grand-child, of some old servant your guide does not remember which. She is better out of the way there in the corner. At all events she can find plenty to eat among the dirt-heap; and as for her soul, if she has one, the clergyman is said to come and see her now and then, so probably it will be saved.
Death seemed to visit the happy family circle so often that one wonders almost where the tale will stop. Four or five grand-children passed away in rapid succession. After the funeral of the first grand-child, she assembled the family party in the evening, and with a little of the old fire and yearning affection, gave them exhortation and consolation.
'My wife comes foremost; then the honoured mould Wherein this trunk was framed, and in her hand The grand-child to her blood. But, out, affection! All bond and privilege of nature, break! Let it be virtuous to be obstinate. What is that curtsey worth? or those doves' eyes, Which can make gods forsworn? 'I melt, and am not Of STRONGER EARTH than others.
The old sexton quite outdid himself, for although he had rung the bell for more than thirty years, he had never felt greater pride or joy in his task. Was not his son John home for Christmas, and John's wife, and a grand-child newly named Nathaniel for himself?
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