Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-10-12
VOL. XLIII.
CLYDE Papers, no. II.
Some Account of the Family.
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We are Of ancient and honorable pedigree,
having records in our possession showing that
We descended in direct line frofn Wm the
Conquefor and that our ancestry were among
the brarest of the old Norman chivalry 1t
is needless to trace our lineage down through
intervening generations, but open the family
history thus to chow you, o, reader of the
Delaware Gazette, that we are not without the
prestige of patrician birth. But two OF US
are left-Kittie and Minnie Clyde-sole rep
resentatiyes Of tie old stock, the rest of them
having died, or all trace of them been lost
Our grandfather was a political exile sent to
this fair land when la belle France was the
scene of disastrous events, and well do we re-
member hearing our grandmother-a dapper
little French lady-as she sat in her stuffed
armchair, tell US stories of the olden time
when her husband, brave officer, was gone to
the sfars.
Our father was native of this country, and
our mother the daughter of a reputable mer-
chant of Montreal. They both fell victims to
the cholera in 49, leaving us in care Of an aunt
who tenderly watched over us until she, too,
died. We were theft placed in the convent of
St. Ursula and educated under Catholic inau-
eHee. The lady abbess aid the sisters were
very kind to us, orphans as we were. We
might have remained there to this day had we
not accidentally met Protestant minister
who detected in Kitty's face resemblance to
eur dead mother whom in years past he had
known and loved. He at once took US into
bis family and provided for US like true Eath-
er. He established our claim TO large estates
lying on the border between France and Spain
and which for centuries had been the property
of our ancestors. There stand, in their fresh
ness and beauty, those hills clad in vines, and
whose pdrple clusters drop the sweetest wine.
There lie the green fields dotted with white
cottages and luxuriant in color and fragrance,
and these are ours
1t wonld doubtless be satisfactory to know
the exact lotslity Of our possessions. They
comprise farms and vineyards lying between
the cities of Beryonne and Audora, the former
department of the Bases Pyrepies and sta
ted eighteen miles from the Spanish frontier
Would you like to know how and where we
live? Here by ourselves in your own village.
and did yoh but know it. the question Have
we Bourbon among us. " might be answered
with certainty. OF course, it's "a sly little
nook IN the contest OF square-topped cottages
where vines run over the windows and roses peep
through the lattice We choose TO live thus
quietly and demurely in the soft light of the
ifcsside rather than in great castle of a
house which always las III it much state and
but little cheer. We have birds and flowers,
music and pictures. books and statuary ali the
say from l3orf7e.
Did you never see Kittys Canova? 1t is the
sweetest of small marble boys with curly hair
and great, SOULFUL Eyes. lie is writing, wifIs.a
tablet before him in one hand aud pencil in
the other, and it is be who inspires her to write
poetry, and is her own peculiar pride aud pet
We might roll through the street i'll our
| carriage, drawn by the dearest dappie greys
ard bearing npon it's panels the f.ihiy coat-of-
armsl but we like walking aud romping 50
much better, ard .hen it is y wosll OF trouble
to look after groom! We know all the
places where the birds build nests all the
chimneys where the swallows hide. ard all the
/ stones uGder the hill that lie il The clear
| spaIk:in brook. W.. have Il @ocd deal oi ad
venture in our lives ana sC1uetm may unfold
| to yon something tlat shall awaken your IN
/ ter, ST.