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Updated: May 10, 2025
The first words that claimed the girls attention ran: "Wake maid of Love! the moments fly Which yet, that maiden-name allow; Wake, maiden, wake! the hour is nigh When Love shall claim a plighted vow." Hitherto Scott had been one of Marguerite's favorite authors, but now she threw down the book as if stung by an adder. Her blood was chilled in her veins, and she seemed as if petrified.
Yet there was a time when Rose Grafton such was the pretty maiden-name of Nurse Toothaker possessed beauty that would have gladdened this dim and dismal chamber as with sunshine. It won for her the heart of Edward Fane, who has since made so great a figure in the world and is now a grand old gentleman with powdered hair and as gouty as a lord.
Empowered by Act of Parliament to retain her maiden-name after marriage, she showed her disesteem for her husband's patronymic by her mode of exercising the privilege secured to her by special law; and many a time the sergeant indignantly insisted that she should use his name in her signatures.
"I've just received word from Mary McCullom," she said. "She's in Union Hospital I don't know but I must hurry. The word said that Mary McCullom wanted me nothing more. That was her maiden-name. I knew her so. Her husband died recently, but I didn't hear in time to find her. She must have left New York for a time. They were so happy.... I'm afraid " David went to her.
Out of the depths of poverty, sorrow, and degradation he rose, by God's blessing on his aspirations, to the very zenith of fame, honor, and glory! He made his name, the only name he was legally entitled to bear his poor wronged mother's maiden-name illustrious in the annals of our nation! But this is to anticipate.
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