half-nobody

Updated: May 5, 2025

And yet the family committee that ordered the inscription, the mason who cut it in the marble himself a sort of half-Grandissime, half-nobody and even the fair women who each eve of All-Saints came, attended by flower-laden slave girls, to lay coronals upon the old man's tomb, felt, feebly at first, and more and more distinctly as years went by, that Forever was a trifle long for one to confine one's patriotic affection to a small fraction of a great country.

George Washington Cable - The Grandissimes