Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


As Mrs. Tully told Graham: "And that is a concession I make to no
woman save Paula. She is the only woman I can trust myself to with
horses. She has the horse-way about her. When she was a child she was
wild over horses. It's a wonder she didn't become a circus rider."


More, much more, Graham learned about Paula in various chats with her
aunt. Of Philip Desten, Paula's father, Mrs. Tully could never say
enough. Her eldest brother, and older by many years, he had been her
childhood prince. His ways had been big ways, princely ways--ways
that to commoner folk had betokened a streak of madness. He was
continually guilty of the wildest things and the most chivalrous
things. It was this streak that had enabled him to win various
fortunes, and with equal facility to lose them, in the great gold
adventure of Forty-nine. Himself of old New England stock, he had had
for great grandfather a Frenchman--a trifle of flotsam from a mid-
ocean wreck and landed to grow up among the farmer-sailormen of the
coast of Maine.

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