... cottage; and the mansion of the lord of the manor was the chiefest type of grandeur she could conceive. During my father's life, shehad been made familiar with the name of royalty and the courtly ... the religion which makes the heart breathe forth ferventthanksgiving, and causes us to pour out the overflowings of the soul100before the author of our being; that which is the parent of the ... than the poorest, who, dying, had left them, athankless bequest, to the close-handed charity of the land.I, the elder of the two, was five years old when my mother died. A re-membrance of the...