 | Samuel Henry Wandell, Meade Minnigerode - Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 - 1925 - 438 pages
...her father an attachment which was "not of a common nature," so that when he was away she could not "hear you spoken of without an apparent melancholy;...and myself avoid to mention you in her presence"; a bright, rosy bumptious little girl, full of fibs and pranks, who hated cats quite as much as she... | |
 | Aaron Burr, Matthew Livingston Davis - New York (State) - 1855 - 450 pages
...beyond a doubt, but hope impossibilities. I had a thousand things to write, but the idea of seeing you banishes every other thought. I fear much the...myself avoid to mention you in her presence. She was tme whole day indifferent to every thing but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature; though... | |
 | James Parton - United States - 1877 - 500 pages
...meals, and will not suffer your chair to be filled by any of the family." And again : " Your dear little Theodosia cannot hear you spoken of without an apparent...her presence. She was one whole day indifferent to everything but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature." Here was an inviting opportunity... | |
 | James Parton - New York (State) - 1888 - 460 pages
...to the repose, to the life of THEODOSIA." MRS. BURR TO AAEON BURR. — New York, August 29, 1785. " Our little daughter's health has improved beyond my...her presence. She was one whole day indifferent to everything but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature ; though this was my opinion, I... | |
 | James Parton - New York (State) - 1893 - 456 pages
...her, and myself avoid to mention you in her presence. She was one whole day indifferent to everything but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature...observed it to me as a singular instance. "You see I have fol'owed your example in speaking first of myself. I esteemed it a real trait of your affection, a... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - 1907 - 586 pages
...shall relate to you with singular pleasure at your return. From Mrs. Burr. NEW YORK, August 29, 1785. Our little daughter's health has improved beyond my...her presence. She was one whole day indifferent to everything but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature; though this was my opinion, I avoided... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - Cities and towns - 1912 - 540 pages
...from one of her mother's letters to the absent husband that their daughter, then only two years old, " cannot hear you spoken of without an apparent melancholy;...avoid to mention you in her presence. She was one day indifferent to everything but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature; though this... | |
 | MARY CAROLINE CRAWFORD - 1912 - 988 pages
...from one of her mother's letters to the absent husband that their daughter, then only two years old, " cannot hear you spoken of without an apparent melancholy;...avoid to mention you in her presence. She was one day indifferent to everything but your name. Her attachment is not of a common nature; though this... | |
 | Myrtle Reed - American fiction - 1913 - 408 pages
...mature charm. When she was but three years old her mother wrote to the father, saying: "Your dear little Theodosia cannot hear you spoken of without an apparent...exert her invention to divert her, and myself avoid the mention of you in her presence. She was one whole day indifferent to everything but your name.... | |
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Theodosia cannot hear you spoken of without an apparent melancholy ; insomuch that her nurse is obliged to exert her invention to divert her, and myself avoid to mention you in her presence. She was one whole day indifferent to everything but your name.... 
