Finley, Martha, 1828-1909 / 2008-07-31 00:00:00
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GRANDMOTHER ELSIE
A SEQUEL TO
"ELSIE'S WIDOWHOOD"
By MARTHA FINLEY
COMPLETE AUTHORIZED EDITION
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
good and ill together."--Shakespeare
Published by arrangement with
Dodd, Mead and Company
A.L. BURT COMPANY
_PUBLISHERS_
New York Chicago
1882,
BY
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1910,
BY
CHARLES B. FINLEY
GRANDMOTHER ELSIE
CHAPTER I.
"Every state,
Allotted to the race of man below,
Is in proportion, doom'd to taste some sorrow."
--_Rowe_.
The Ion family were at home again after their summer on the New Jersey
coast.
It was a delightful morning early in October: the dew-drops on the still
green grass of the neatly kept lawn sparkled in the rays of the newly
risen sun; the bright waters of the lakelet also, as, ruffled by the
breeze, they broke gently about the prow of the pretty row-boat moored to
the little wharf; the gardens were gay with bright-hued flowers, the trees
gorgeous in their autumnal dress.
But though doors and windows were open, the gardener and his assistants at
work in the grounds, there seemed a strange quiet about the place: when
the men spoke to each other it was in subdued tones; there was no
sound--as in other days--of little feet running hither and thither, nor
of childish prattle or laughter.
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