Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...parents, unwilling, their daughter resign...
...daughter said, "Papa...
...congratulated on the legacy which has been left to it in the will of Mr. Walter Hastings of Boston. As far as we can ascertain the facts they are as follows: The whole of the property left by Mr. Hastings amounts to about $800,000; his wife and daughter are to receive during their lifetime $15,000 a year between them, or the income of $300,000. The other $500,000 are to accumulate, and on the death of the two ladies will go, with the remaining $300,000, to Harvard College. The money is left, too, without any restriction...
Sport I have heard this pastime called. Well, yes, it did furnish a good deal of sport to my host's pretty daughter. I now think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch...
Securely guards his daughter fair...