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Updated: June 11, 2025
She waved her hand toward the table, then looked around the large high-ceilinged room, with its wainscoting of mahogany, its massive old-fashioned furniture, its portraits of her great and great-great- grand-parents on the walls, the mirror over the mantel, the heavy red velvet hangings over the curtains at the long windows, the old-patterned silver on the sideboard, the glass and china in the presses, and again she waved her hand.
"I tell Silas that no one ever does keep Christmas just right till they get to be grand-parents like us, and have the children bringing their children home to hang up their stockings in the old chimney corner.
It's an hereditary failing with him, no, it's hereditary damnation. Siward after Siward, generation after generation you know " She bit her lip, thinking a moment. "His grandfather was a friend of my grand-parents, brilliant, handsome, generous, and doomed! His own father was found dying in a dreadful resort in London where he had wandered when stupefied a Siward! Think of it!
"How long did you stay at home on that occasion?" "Three months; until I went to sea in the Thomas Jefferson." "What was your mother's name, sir?" "My mother's name was Elizabeth Radcliffe." "What were the names of your grand-parents?" added Mr. Wyllys, quickly. "My grandfather Stanley's name was William; I am named after him. My grandmother's maiden name was Ellis Jane Ellis."
They reached Villiers to find every house empty, and were almost instantly expulsed by shells. So now we are all scattered to the four winds of heaven. I am so sad when I think of my poor grand-parents, obliged to leave home and to roll along the high-roads at their age. What misery! I am afraid our village is going to suffer much more than it did in 1914.
He does not often preach of late years except on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and such high days. A pleasant old man he used to be, but he grows forgetful now, for the last time we met him, he patted my head just as if I were still a little child, and I shall be seventeen in March. He has been Vicar over sixty years, and christened Father and married my grand-parents.
"The grandmother, an Indian woman of the Seminoles who comes sometimes with baskets, and the wife of Miguel of the island. But they are all old, and their skins are curled: I like better the silver skin of the señora." Poor little Felipa lived on the edge of the great salt marsh alone with her grand-parents, for her mother was dead.
None but very quiet people are fit to take care of them, for a loud noise would kill them. Gold and silver fish also cannot bear much noise. In every large house in China there is a room called the Hall of Ancestors. There the family worship their dead parents and grand-parents, and great-grand-parents, and those who lived still further back.
Every individual must be entered, its ancestry must be known as completely as possible, and all its relations must be noted in such a form, that the most complete reference is always possible. Mutations may come unexpectedly, and when once arisen, their parents and grand-parents should be known. Records must be available which will allow of a most complete knowledge of the whole ancestral line.
After breakfast, her grandmother, to divert her mind, took her in her lap, and read to her Bible stories, until the first bell rang for church. Then Fanny was dressed in a neat lawn, and her long curls were fastened back, under her simple straw bonnet; and taking hold of Frank's hand, they walked to church with their grand-parents.
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