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Recollections of Auton House .. (1889)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 53

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ike a monkey. Look what a face its making. He s the ugliest baby I eversaw, etc. These ingenuous remarks were the unbiased opinionspronounced upon every new Auton as it appeared. They say that children and fools speak the truth. The middle chamber wasalso the room which our big brother occupied… … THE MIDDLE CHAMBER. 49 until breakfast time, when he sedately descended in his slippersto read the morning paper in quiet reserve. He was his moth-ers hope, and his fathers joy, - and well he might be, forhe was held up before us as an example of everything that wasnoble and worthy of imitation —…

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