The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

Excerpt from The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation

In the dining-room. Two long lines of portraits looked down from Opposite walls. One was headed by a grim Old earl, and the other by an equally grim old Pilgrim father Of May ower fame. The two lines joined over the fireplace in the portraits of Madam Chartley's great-grandparents. It was for this great-grandmother, a daughter of the Pilgrims and a beautiful Washington belle, that Warwick Hall had been built; for She refused to give up her native land entirely, even for the son of an earl.

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