Rand, Mary Abbott, b. 1840, Belford, Clarke & Co., publisher · Chicago : Belford, Clarke & Co. · leaf 160
serwith polished copper and pewter dishes, reflectingback the fire like so many moons. Soon the door opened, and fishermen brought inmy dead mother. And then I heard them say, stand-ing on the shore that stormy night, my father had seenthe ship go down, and had drowned himself fromgrief. I thought… … BETSEY ODEE. My grandfather repented, I was told, and madeover to me the money that would have been my moth-ers. A friend of my fathers, residing in the townwhere I then lived, was appointed my guardian, and Iwas to live at his house. There, for years, I hadeverything to make me what you see me…
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