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Her great-great-grandmother and her great-great-aunts made shocked exclamations, and her great-great-great-grandmother looked at her with horror. "You have been brought up as one of the heathen," said she. Then she produced a small book, and Letitia was bidden to seat herself upon a stool and learn the doctrine of predestination before breakfast.
The only pretence to hereditary pride which we have here, exists in two States; in one of them some four or five hundred persons cannot forget that their forefathers got to shore before somebody else; and in the other a few families still dispute over the threadbare question of whose great-great-grandmother cost the most pounds of tobacco.
In those days we had to do many things ourselves, such as dip our candles, and I made my eyes weak mending Jedidiah's shoes in the evening, a candle near me, and the tall old family clock ticking in the corner." Miss Barry was charming in her antique dress, as every White Shield thought. It came down from her great-great-grandmother, Sally Tilton, who was a famous belle in her day.
I have grown up since I saw you last, Mr Miner. The smile which accompanied the words had in it a strange mixture of playfulness and sadness. 'So I see, Miss Princess, returned Curdie; 'and therefore, being more of a princess, you are the more my princess. Here I am, sent by your great-great-grandmother, to be your servant. May I ask why you are up so late, Princess?
She wore the ornaments of pure yellow gold which her great-great-grandmother had brought over from Saardam; the tempting stomacher of the olden time; and withal a provokingly short petticoat, to display the prettiest foot and ankle in the country round.
She was horribly afraid, but she was also horribly homesick, and homesickness will urge to desperate deeds. That night, also, Captain John Hopkins and his wife went to visit the sick neighbor, and, after the younger sisters were in bed, Letitia was left alone with her great-great-grandmother, who was sleepy.
"A froward child, I fear," remarked Captain John Hopkins when they had gone. "Yes," assented his wife. "He is afraid of Injuns when there are none, too," said Great-great-grandmother Letitia. "That is an evil thing, too," said her father. "It is distrusting the Almighty to fear where is nothing to fear. A froward child, and I trust that Goodman Holbrook will not spare the rod."
"But where is your great-great-grandmother that you told me about, and rather insinuated she was as nice as my Ambrosine Eustasie de Calincourt?" "There she is, in the place of honor. She was painted by Gainsborough, after she married. What do you think of her?" "Oh! she is lovely," I said, "and she has your cat's eyes." "'She is your ancestress, too, but she is not like you.
For he said to himself that, as he was sent there by the young princess's great-great-grandmother to serve her or her father in some way, surely he must have a right to his food in the Palace, without which he could do nothing. He would go at once and reconnoitre. So he crept up the stair that led from the cellar. At the top was a door, opening on a long passage dimly lighted by a lamp.
Now if that goose was my great-great-grandmother, I ought to know all about it, and I do, for I've heard Grandfather White Goose tell it more times than I've got feathers in my left wing. "Would you like to know how it all really happened? Well, I'll tell you, and remember that I'm the one among all others on this farm who should know the exact truth.
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