My Cousin the Colonel

By Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

Book Id: WPLBN0000628947
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	My Cousin the Colonel
Author:	Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Excerpt: MY COUSIN THE COLONEL I Mrs. Wesley frequently embarrasses me by remarking in the presence of other persons our intimate friends, of course ?Wesley, you are not brilliant, but you are good.? From Mrs. Wesley?s outlook, which is that of a very high ideal, there is nothing uncomplimentary in the remark, nothing so intended, but I must confess that I have sometimes felt as if I were paying a rather large price for character. Yet when I reflect on my cousin the colonel, and my own action in the matter, I am ready with gratitude to accept Mrs. Wesley?s estimate of me, for if I am not good, I am not anything. Perhaps it is an instance of my lack of brilliancy that I am willing to relate certain facts which strongly tend to substantiate this. My purpose, however, is not to prove either my goodness or my dulness, but to leave some record, even if slight and imperfect, of my only relative. When a family is reduced like ours to a single relative, it is well to make the most of him. One should celebrate him annually, as it were.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: My Cousin the Colonel, 1 -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1 -- MY COUSIN THE COLONEL, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 5 -- III, 9 -- IV, 11 -- V, 17