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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIII: Oldport Days (search)
er quarters, he wrote, namely a very old and stately house by the bay, with grand mahogany stairways, several rooms panelled to the ceiling and as much carving as any Newburyport house. . . . We are wholly apart from the fashionable region here, and it seems like a fishing hamlet in the suburbs. A family of New York children who also summered at the Point gave great delight to Colonel Higginson. He taught them to swim, took them sailing, and thus described one of them:— My little Marie's charms are at present in a state of chaos, some other child having snipped off her hair, and nature having borrowed her two upper teeth; but her eyes are like great deep ocean caves, with such unconscious lashes! When in the autumn he was obliged to part from these little companions he complained, It is a heart-breaking business this setting one's affections on other people's children. Yet he tried to comfort himself by thinking, It never has been clear to me till lately that the gre