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in-law of the first magnitude, or, as he called 

 it, " una suocera tremenda," and this without 

 knowing that I wanted her to be a mother-in- 

 law myself. Unfortunately she had no real 

 drapery, so I could not settle the question as 

 my friend Mr. H. F. Jones and I had been 

 able to do at Varallo with the figure of Eve 

 that had been turned into a Roman soldier 

 assisting at the capture of Christ. I am not, 

 however, disposed to waste more time upon 

 anything so obvious, and will content myself 

 with saying that we have here the Virgin's 

 grandmother. I had never had the pleasure, 

 so far as I remembered, of meeting this lady 

 before, and was glad to have an opportunity 

 of making her acquaintance. 



Tradition says that it was she who chose 

 the Virgin's name, and if so, what a debt of 

 gratitude do we not owe her for her judicious 

 selection ! It makes one shudder to think 

 what might have happened if she had named 

 the child Keren - Happuch, as poor Job's 

 daughter was called. How could we have 

 said, " Ave Keren-Happuch ! " What would 

 the musicians have done ? 1 forget whether 



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