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Colland McTavish, your great-grandfather, and The McTavish's great-grandfather, were brothers and the poor bereft mother that put up this tablet was your great-great-grandmother, and hers." "Surely then," said he, "The McTavish would let me put a roof on the chapel. I'd like to," he said, and the red came strongly into his cheeks. "I'll ask her.
It is not conceivable that, generations hence, the head of a family will exhibit with pride the stained newspaper cuttings containing the unsavoury details of the divorce case of his great-great-grandmother. This aspect of family history seldom presented itself to Ursula Winwood. It did not do so this mellow and contented afternoon.
A wife is a torment, if you can't feel at ease with her. "If there were only a French fleet in the harbor, dear," said Margaret one day, "I should feel that I had quite taken up the life of my great-great-grandmother." They were sailing in Hollowell's yacht, in which Uncle Jerry had brought his family round from New York. He hated the water, but Mrs.
"Odd noises were to be heard, muffled screams came from behind the closed doors, and finally the people who lived here saw the white, ghostly form of my great-great-grandmother moving about in the room and in the halls. Ever since that time her spirit can be seen up there, for it comes around once in a while to see if anybody desecrates the room by trying to sleep in it.
Where are the Injuns, pray?" "I know there were Injuns after me," said the boy earnestly, "but perhaps I frightened them away. I brandished my knife as I ran." Great-great-grandmother Letitia sniffed again, but she looked anxious. "I hope," said she, "that father and mother will not be molested on their way home." "Give me a musket," declared the boy bravely, "and I will guard the path."
'It was very kind of you to give me your name and such a pretty one, said the princess. 'Oh, not so very kind! said the old lady. 'A name is one of those things one can give away and keep all the same. I have a good many such things. Wouldn't you like to know who I am, child? 'Yes, that I should very much. 'I'm your great-great-grandmother, said the lady. 'What's that? asked the princess.
She had been afraid to, knowing how shocked they would be at her disobedience. Now, however, when the treasure was replaced, she was moved in confidence, and told her great-great-grandmother the story. "That is very strange," said her great-great-grandmother, when Letitia had finished. "We have a little green door, too; only ours is on the outside of the house, in the north wall.
Then she sent Letitia to her room for the satin-wood box, and, when she had brought it, took out of it a little parcel, neatly folded in white paper, tied with a green ribbon. "Open it," said she. Letitia untied the green ribbon and unfolded the paper, and there was the little silver snuff-box which had been the treasure of the great-great-grandmother, Letitia Hopkins.
"It is Josephus Peabody," answered the boy's voice, and Letitia gasped, for she remembered seeing that very name on the genealogical tree which hung in her great-aunt Peggy's front entry, although she could not quite remember where it came in, whether it was on a main branch or a twig. "Are the Injuns after you?" inquired Great-great-grandmother Letitia.
"They belonged to your great-great-grandmother," said the Colonel, "and they're going to be yours some day if you grow up and have a house of your own." The expression on her beaming face was worth a fortune to the Colonel. When Walker pushed her chair up to the table, she turned to her grandfather with shining eyes. "Oh, it's just like a pink story," she cried, clapping her hands.
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