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Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

CHAPTER VIII
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Fanny, now the wife of Henry Villard, the financier, was the favorite and pet.

All the children, in their maturer years, have fulfilled the promises of their childhood.
Though always in straitened circumstances, the Garrisons were very hospitable.

It was next to impossible for Mr.Garrison to meet a friend without inviting him to his house, especially at the close of a convention.
I was one of twelve at one of his impromptu tea parties.

We all took it for granted that his wife knew we were coming, and that her preparations were already made.

Surrounded by half a dozen children, she was performing the last act in the opera of Lullaby, wholly unconscious of the invasion downstairs.


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