It seems natural, when you think it over, that Latrobe and Kennedy and Horn should be men of genius, because their blood entitles them to it, but how a man raised as Mr.Poe has been should--well--all I can say is that he upsets all our theories." "But I think you are wrong, Uncle George, about his birth.

I've been looking him up and his grandfather was a general in the Revolution." "Well, I'm glad of it--and I hope he was a very good general, and very much of a gentleman--but there is no question of his descendant being a wonder.

But that is neither here nor there--you'll be right opposite and can study him in your own way." Mr.Kennedy arrived first.

Although his family name is the same as that which dignifies the scene of these chronicles, none of his ancestors, so far as I know, were responsible for its title.

Nor did his own domicile front on its confines.