Now, at different seasons of the year, these families, with two
gray-haired old ladies and a gray-haired old man with a sailor's rolling
walk, may be seen, sometimes in London, sometimes on a fair estate in
Devonshire, sometimes in a stately home in the Miami Valley, and again
down on the Brazos in Texas.
Around and among them are playing broods of little Jacks, Jims, Toms,
Roses, Graces, and Margarets, and older children are away at school. All
the children call the old ladies "Grandma" and the gray man with the
sailor's walk "Grand-uncle," and all who see them declare that no other
such a happy company can be found in all the world.
The place on the Brazos is superintended by a shrewd Irishman, while the
village physician, formerly a ship surgeon, is named Craig, and his
wife's name is Nora; and the people there say there is not in all Texas
another woman who is more of a lady or has a complexion so clear, a face
so fair, or such a wealth of hair, which in color is between flaxen and
gold.
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