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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 1: Cambridge and Newburyport (search)
son with dignity. Wha-a-t exclaimed the excellent lady promptly, pausing halfway out of the closet with a sugar-bowl in her hand. Why, be you Louisa Storer's son? Undoubtedly, ma'am, said I modestly; did you know her? Know her! said she. Why, she married General Lincoln's son! Transfixed with horror, you may conceive how I disclaimed the imputation that my mother had ever demeaned herself so unutterably, though I never heard of General Lincoln except as the steamboat in which we went to Hull. I mentally paralyzed the good lady and perplexed her so utterly that she could only emerge from the closet at last where she had still grasped the sugar-bowl, and setting it down she at last amicably observed, Well, guess I'd better get your supper first and then we'll see about it. Again and again during my visit did she renew the charge, and at last, wearied out, abandoned the theory, but only to hurt it with a final suggestion as we sat at breakfast Monday morning--Well, it must have b