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Your Great-aunt Phoebe your Great-great-aunt, I should say was betrothed to a brave young officer, Lieutenant Hetherington. It was just at the breaking out of the War of 1812, and the engagement was made just as he was going into active service.
Not that the General wasn't a great man, dear, he was a very great soldier, of course and in his youth, you know, he was an admirer of your Great-great-aunt Emmeline. But she why, she was the beauty and belle of two continents there's an ottoman at home covered with a piece of her wedding dress." And the house? Was the house still as she had left it on that Christmas Eve?
And heah's Uncle Tom in his soldier clothes, and this is mothah's great-great-aunt that was such a belle in the days of Clay and Webstah." She led the way around the room, introducing Betty to all the old family portraits, with interesting tales about each one. Then she went back to her harp, and Betty sat down in front of the first picture again.
Waitstill wuz named from a Puritan great-great-aunt, whose beauty and goodness had fell onto her, poor girl! She stood by Arvilly. They wuz made friends on that dretful night when they had stood by the men they loved, one killed and the other to be killed by the govermunt.
I fancy that Phillida, with all her superior intelligence, has a good deal of this great-great-aunt of her father's in her. I was talking to her once about this story of Mary Callender's preaching in the streets, and she really seemed to take more interest in that Quaker lady's delusion than she did in her ancestors on our side; and you know, Mr.
Her great-great-aunt Candace was knitting, and little Phyllis was scouring the hearth. Goodwife Hopkins was preparing breakfast. "Go to the other wheel," said she to Letitia, "and spin until the porridge is done. We can have no idle hands here." Letitia looked helplessly at a great spinning-wheel in the corner, then at her great-great-great-grandmother. "I don't know how," she faltered.
"Send for a pillow, Miss Betty; that is what mother does," Belle suggested, to the delight of the small waiter, who was compelled to retire suddenly to the hall, where he was heard giggling. "As some of you know," Miss Betty began, "the ring belonged to Miss Patricia Gilpin, who was an aunt of Cousin Thomas's, and your great-great-aunt, Rosalind.
"Very likely they will," replied the other Letitia coolly. "They come 'most every night." The little great-great-aunt Phyllis laughed again. "She can't go to sleep because she heard Injuns," she tittered. "Hush," said her sister Letitia, "she'll get accustomed to them in time." But poor Letitia slept no more till four o'clock.
At the age of seven years she was provided with a pair by a great-great-aunt, a kind old lady living at Fareham, in Hampshire, where they were still in use. How interesting the little circles looked stamped upon the muddy road, and how nearly down upon one's nose one was at every other step! But even with all her success, Miss Mitford was not out of her troubles. She writes to Mr.
Her great-great-aunt, Phyllis, the youngest of them all, laughed on the other side. "She's afraid of a catamount," said she. Letitia could not go to sleep for a long while, for the wild cries continued, and she thought several times that the catamount was scratching up the walls of the house.
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