The Dolliver Romance

Quote, Little Pansie was the one earthly creature that inherited a drop of the Dolliver blood. The Doctors only child, poor Bessies offspring, had died the better part of a hundred years before, and his grandchildren, a numerous and dimly remembered brood, had vanished along his weary track in their youth, maturity, or incipient age, till, hardly knowing, how it had all happened, he found himself tottering onward with an infants small fingersinhisnervelessgrasp. So mistily did his dead progeny come and go in the patriarchs decayed recollection, that this solitary child represented for him the successive babyhoods of the numerous that had gone before.