a Aunt Moody and Deborah were two old-fashioned, long-suffering, sweet-tempered children-lovers. To us they seemed tohave been born in that nursery, or, for aught we knew, were coexist-ent with the Flood. Whenever they went out it was as much of acircumstance to the whole household as one of Mother… … 16 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. and fingered their old finery with a license which the extraordinarycircumstances of the occasion alone warranted. Aunt Moody andDeborah were as much of an institution in the Auton nursery asthe old four-poster bedstead ; or the nursery closet where the medi-cines…
Auton House (Providence, R.I.) · Children's literature
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