“Do you remember—” “And do you remember again—”“August 24. Sonnenberg .... At breakfast an elderly lady seemed to look at me and to smile. I supposed her to be one of my Club ladies, or some one who had entertained me, so presently I asked her if she were ‘one of my acquaintances.’ She replied that she was not, but would be pleased to make my acquaintance. We met soon after in one of the corridors; having ”
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we wandered at will, and saw the mighty tun. Some French people were wandering there also, and one of them, a lady with a sweet soprano voice, sang a song of which the refrain was: “Comme une étoile au firmament.”
H. H. Ward long after found this song somewhere.
His voice has now been silent for twenty years, dear Marion's for forty-six, and here I come to-day, with my grown — up granddaughter, whom dear Chev only knew as a baby.
How long the time seems, and yet how short!
Two generations have grown up since then in our family.
My sister Louisa, then a young beauty, is here with me, a grandmother with grandchildren nearly grown.
“So teach us to number our days.”
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It seemed to the second and third generations that the two sisters could hardly have been lovelier in that far-off springtime than now in the mellow beauty of their autumn.
It was a delight to see them together, a high privilege to sit by and listen to the interchange of precious memories:--
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
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