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"When I was a little girl, Virginia," remarked Aunt Jane, with the air of immense age and wisdom which she occasionally assumed, "my grandmother your great-grandmother, of course, my love would never allow me to name my dolls a second time. She did not approve of changeableness.
But Clara's mother was a church woman, and her father a deeply religious man. It was his mother, "old lady Mumford" Rachael's great-grandmother who taught the child her catechism whenever she could get hold of that restless and lawless little girl.
They get up before the household, and get away before any one can see them. I can't tell you why. I don't think my grandmother's great-grandmother knew. Perhaps because all good deeds are better done in secret." "Please," said Tommy, "I should like to go home now, and tell Johnnie. It's getting cold, and I am so tired!"
"You look like my great-grandmother, Juliane de Cornault, lying in the chapel with her feet on a little dog," he said. The analogy sent a chill through her, but she laughed and answered: "Well, when I am dead you must put me beside her, carved in marble, with my dog at my feet." "Oho we'll wait and see," he said, laughing also, but with his black brows close together.
You ought to be able to find out the painter, if, as you say, it's a portrait of your own great-grandmother " "He did say so!" broke in Sanderson, exultantly. "He said it was an ancestress. Fletcher, you're a vulgar fraud. You've got no ancestress. You bought her. There's a sale-ticket still on the frame under the projection at the right-hand lower corner. I saw it."
Niagara made a great impression upon me, and Buffalo, with its steamers, seemed as great then as London seems now. Four years later, in 1842, I was taken to the hills of middle Massachusetts to visit my great-grandfather and great-grandmother, and thence to Boston, where Faneuil Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, Harvard College, and Mount Auburn greatly impressed me.
"It so fell out that when Julia was in her sixteenth year there came a famous writing-master to Peewawkin. He was a showy, dashing fellow, with a fashionable dress, a wicked eye, and a tongue like the old serpent's when he tempted our great-grandmother. Julia was one of his scholars, and perhaps the prettiest of them all.
The only original information I can find in the discourse is to the effect that when Joseph was a bare-legged little Hebrew, making mud-pies in the land of his forefathers, his daddy called him "Joe"; that the Bible refers to Egypt and Egyptians just "two hundred and eighty-nine times," and that "Egypt is our great-grandmother."
"Don't worry, Celeste; Bob is just a clear throw-back to her great-grandmother, Nancy Donaldson, who shot two Indians and a bear in defense of her kiddies one afternoon while my maternal grandsire was in the stockades presiding over the council in which was laid down the first broad draft for the formation of the Commonwealth of Harpeth.
It was said too, that the girl, Lucy Upton, who became Henry Ware's wife and who was Harry's great-grandmother, had received this same gift of forest divination. His own first name had been given to him in honor of that redoubtable great-grandfather. Now all the instincts of Harry's famous ancestors became intensely alive in him.
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