Letters of Elizabeth Cabot, Volume 1 |
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afraid afternoon Anna April April 15 April 20 Arthur Lyman Aunt baby beautiful believe beloved BEVERLY blessed BOSTON breakfast BROOKLINE Cabot certainly Charles CHICOPEE comfort darling deal dear dearest delightful dinner dress Edmund EDWARD TWISTLETON Ellen Elliot enjoy expect eyes face feel felt Frank Frank Parker Friday friends give gone happy Harry hear heart Heaven hope July 29 keep least leave letter live look Lord Martigny Mary Mary Chilton Millsey mind MISS LIZZIE ELIOT Monday morning Moss HILL mother Nahant never Newport night one's Parkman passed peace perfectly pleasant pleasure pretty Saturday seems sister slavery splendid stand Sunday sure talk tell thankful thing Thomas à Kempis thought to-day to-morrow told Tuesday walk Wednesday week winter wish woman wonder write yesterday
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Page 45 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 97 - I feel well and strong and perfectly able and content to take life as it comes and make the best of it.
Page 35 - ... society and at home, and I confess to an unsatisfied longing, occasionally, for a little of the harmless and graceful superficiality of the French. These, however, are the natural sensations of a girl brought up in the most moral of cities...
Page 280 - ... 1861 letter written by Elizabeth Cabot, a wealthy Boston matron. After her sister-in-law's wet nurse had "given out," Cabot canvassed immigrant enclaves to find a replacement: I roused up and trotted over, and thought I would raise a wet nurse in the village and dressed forthwith and started in the carryall with Powell, invaded four Irish mansions, succeeded in raising a nurse and a woman to take her baby and sent her off with Powell into town to be examined by Sam and go to Lillie.
Page 236 - They raise such a clear vision of your beloved beautiful self before me as for the time takes off that weight of absence which one has always to carry and I feel the days they come so refreshed, so added unto, that I have to stop and think sometimes what has happened.
Page 86 - ... looked up through the open sky till he had caught a glimpse of Heaven. And when he spoke of his entire confidence that we shall meet our friends in Heaven, and of his belief in their spiritual communion with us even on earth, truly he spoke as one having authority, and with an earnest simplicity that went straight to one's heart.
Page 285 - North continues splendidly united, and there is something beautiful in the way everybody is at work in the same cause. I had twelve pair of flannel drawers all finished last Saturday and if I had strength should take more work to-morrow, and it is the same in every household.
Page 206 - It seemed as if every day we loved Rome and loved each other better, and you can understand what a gift such a time in life is. It casts a light over all the past and the future, and makes one feel very humble and very, very grateful.
Page 237 - would be excellent training . . . because it so insists on having everything perfectly adjusted, your mind calm, and your foot and hand steady and quiet and regular in their...