"
"It is many years since I have seen Mrs. Grosvenor; we met when we were
both young married ladies, at the house of a friend of mine, in New
York, where she was visiting, and I formed an attachment for her then,
which has never abated. We have kept ourselves informed of each other's
welfare from time to time, and thinking that the daughter might possess
the same amiable disposition as her mother, I thought that her presence
in our family might be pleasant to us all, besides gaining for her,
under your teachers of music and the languages, a finished education.
As for society in Nantucket, I have never learned of what grade it is;
but judging from the appearance of the only person I have ever met from
there, I do not consider them far behind the age."
"Well, I hope I shall like her, I am sure; she has a sweet
name,--Natalie; perhaps we shall like her, after all. But Nantucket
brought to my mind such visions of unrefined oil, that I really began to
tremble, lest we might come in closer contact therewith than would be at
all agreeable"
"Mrs. Santon received the Sea-flower with a mother's tenderness, but
being weary with her journey, Natalie retired early, to dream of those
far, low murmurings of the deep, which she had so missed, in lulling
her to rest.
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