. McClure's magazine. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BUILDINGS, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS. CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Author of The Gates Ajar, The Madonna of the Tubs, etc. LIFE IN ANDOVER BEFORE THE NDOVER is—or Andoverwas—like the lady towhom Steele gave im-mortality in the finestand most famous epi-gram ever offered towoman. To have loved An-dover; to have been born in Andover—Iam brought up short, in these notes, by thesudden recollection that I was not born inAndover. It has always been so difficultto believe it, that I am liable any day toforget it; but the facts compel
. McClure's magazine. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BUILDINGS, ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS. CHAPTERS FROM A LIFE. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Author of The Gates Ajar, The Madonna of the Tubs, etc. LIFE IN ANDOVER BEFORE THE NDOVER is—or Andoverwas—like the lady towhom Steele gave im-mortality in the finestand most famous epi-gram ever offered towoman. To have loved An-dover; to have been born in Andover—Iam brought up short, in these notes, by thesudden recollection that I was not born inAndover. It has always been so difficultto believe it, that I am liable any day toforget it; but the facts compel me to inferthat I was born within a mile of the StateHouse. I must have become a citizen ofAndover at the age of three, when myfather resigned his Boston pulpit for theprofessorship of Rhetoric in Andover Sem-inary. I remember distinctly our arrivalat the white mansion with the large, hand-some grounds, the distant and mysteriousgrove, the rotund horse-chestnut trees,venerable and solemn, nearly a century old—to this day a horse-chestnut always seemsto me like a theological trustee—and thesweep of playground so vast, so soft, sogreen, so fragrant, so clean, that the babycockney ran imperiously to he
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