"Why, Emma!" I said, "what do you mean ?" "Why," she replied, "the rain has washed all the color out of our flags, and the piazza is covered with red and blue streams of water." As the morning sun appeared in all its glory, chasing the dark clouds away, our decorations did indeed look pale and limp, and were promptly removed.
I was happily surprised with my tall, stately daughter, Marguerite Berry.

A fine-looking girl of twenty, straight, strong, and sound, modest and pleasing.

She can walk miles, sketches from nature with great skill and rapidity, and speaks three languages.

I had always said to my sons: "When you marry, choose a woman with a spine and sound teeth; remember the teeth show the condition of the bones in the rest of the body." So, when Theodore introduced his wife to me, he said, "You see I have followed your advice; her spine is as straight as it should be, and every tooth in her head as sound as ivory." This reminds me of a young man who used to put my stoves up for the winter.

He told me one day that he thought of getting married.