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Recollections of Auton House (1909)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 71

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e same asthe ordinarv run of mothers. We bovs al- •/ */ wavs knew what Mother Auton would do on certain occasions. •/ There was no cheating about her. When she said, I 11 see, weknew just as well that we should have what we were begging herfor, as if she had actually said, Yes, my dear, you may… … OUR MOTHER AUTON. 67 bosom, we slept more sweetly than on any other pillow. In laterlife, how puzzled grandfather would have been, to span her portlywaist with his two hands, as he used to do so easily when she wasbut eighteen! and to look into her sweet blue eyes no one woulddetect the hidden snap…

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