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His father was a Bassett; his mother a Le Compton; his great-great-great-grandmother was a Rolfe: there is no cur's blood in him. After the first shock he will have found the spirit and dignity of a gentleman to sustain adversity: these men of fashion are like that; they are better steel than women and writers."
Her coarse shapeless mouth had begun to show a glimmer of lines and curves about it, and the fat had not returned with the roses to her cheeks, so that her eyes looked larger than before; while, more noteworthy still, the bridge of her nose had grown higher, so that it was less of the impudent, insignificant thing inherited from a certain great-great-great-grandmother, who had little else to leave her.
Then I go up into our garret, and look at Hannah's shabby old books, and I ride over to the place on the road where she tended the fire that night, and I think of the number of Hillsboro boys and girls to whom she opened the great world of books, and somehow, I am just as well pleased that it was not the lovely Ann Mary who came back to our town and became my great-great-great-grandmother.
The Dore family seems to go back about as far as the presidency of Willard Filmore, and then it kind of gets discouraged and quite cold. Gee! I'd like to feel that my great-great-great-grandmother had helped Queen Elizabeth with the rent. I'm strong for the fine old stately families of England." "Stately old fiddlesticks!" snapped the earl. "Did you see his eyes flash then, George?
You see, Sir, my great-great-great-grandmother has on the new-fashion'd petticoat, except that the modern is gather'd at the waist; my grandmother appears as if she stood in a large drum, whereas the ladies now walk as if they were in a go-cart. "If you please to fall back a little, because 'tis necessary to look at the three next pictures at one view; these are three sisters.
She lives in a cave, with plenty of space for her knitting." "Does she knit much?" enquired Sidigunda. "Yes; she knits and spins too. She never leaves off; and never has for hundreds and thousands of years." "What a very old lady she must be! Old enough to be a great-great-great-grandmother!" cried the Princess in astonishment.
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.
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