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knew her could doubt that from the Marions she inherited many vital qualities.
One winter, toward the end of her life, there was a meeting at the Old South Church at which — as at the gathering described at the beginning of this chapter — there was talk of ancestry and kindred topics.
The weather was stormy, our mother well on in the eighties, but she was there.
Being called on to speak, she made a brief address in the course of which she alluded to her Southern descent, and to General Francis Marion, her great-great-uncle.
As she spoke her eyes lightened with mirth, in the way we all remember: “General Marion,” she said, “was known in his generation as the ‘Swamp Fox’ ; and when I succeed in eluding the care of my guardians, children and grandchildren, and coming to a meeting like this, I think I may be said to have inherited some of his characteristics!”
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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