Both of my parents died while I was still a baby; and I passed my childhood at the home of my father's mother in Norwich Town--which lies upon the left bank of the river Yantic, some three miles to the north of Norwich City, in Eastern Connecticut. My father's mother, my dear old grandmother, was a French lady by birth; and her maiden name had been quite an imposing one--Aurore Aline Raymonde Marie Antoinette de la Bourbonnaye. But in 1820, when she was nineteen years old, my grandfather had persuaded her to change it for plain and simple Mrs. Brace; from which it would seem that my grandfather must have been a remarkably persuasive man. At that time she lived in Paris with her father and m…
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