None of them would criticize you.

You were the darling and pride of us all." "If I do say it," Miss Ludington presently resumed, "we have been a very respectable lot on the whole.

The Ida Ludingtons have been good babies, good children, good girls, good women, and, I hope, will prove to have been respectable old women.

In the spirit land, when we all meet together, there will be no black sheep among us, nor even anybody that we shall need to send to Coventry: But I do not see why special affinities should not assert themselves there as here, and cliques form among us.
You will belong to them all, of course, but next to you I know that I shall be fondest of that poor girl I told you about, of her and of the Ida Ludington who built this new Hilton thirty years ago." "And now," she said, as they finished looking over the pictures and talking about them, "I have introduced you to all who have borne our name from your day to mine.

As to those who came before you, the baby Ida and the child Ida, you remember them even better than I do, no doubt.