So the comedy ended very pleasantly, and we sat down to supper.
The company departed about midnight, and left us alone in our new quarters.

Then Ellen, the cook, came in to get orders for the morning's marketing--and neither of us knew whether beefsteak was sold by the barrel or by the yard.

We exposed our ignorance, and Ellen was fall of Irish delight over it.

Patrick McAleer, that brisk young Irishman, came in to get his orders for next day--and that was our first glimpse of him....
Our first child, Langdon Clemens, was born the 7th of November, 1870, and lived twenty-two months.

Susy was born the 19th of March, 1872, and passed from life in the Hartford home, the 18th of August, 1896.