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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
hat Lucy was presently heard to say quietly, And is n't the bride to have any breakfast? Whereupon we all discovered that though we had not sentiment enough to fast ourselves, we had enough to neglect her, which was soon remedied, in moderation. But soon we all jumped up and prepared to go.... It was the most beautiful bridal I ever attended. Apropos of Madam Higginson's changing her home, her son wrote, December, 1853: Dearest Mother: Of course we feel very badly at your leaving Boscobel, but must console you with my quaint friend Perry Thayer's reflection, uttered to me last night. The fact is, Mr. Higginson, humanity, ploddina over this planet, meets with considerable many left-handed things, and the best way is to summon up courage and put right through. I think geniuses grow in the Free Church. Perry Thayer's son, now our organist, is a born Chilean and I have just picked up a boy of thirteen, son of poor parents, who has the most remarkable natural gift for drawin