"Yes, we're--we're Catholics all right," said Dan, catching to this saving spar of truth, in his doubt and uncertainty. "We--we wouldn't be anything else if we were killed for it."
"Of course you wouldn't. That is your heritage, my boy! Hold fast to it," said dad, heartily. Then he turned about to see that "The Polly" made the way safely to her private wharf, feeling that he left his little girl with the scion of a family quite equal to the Foresters.
With the strange sense of treading in an unreal world, Dan passed on with the rest of the chattering, laughing crowd to the pretty, rustic wharf jutting out into the waters,Replica Designer Handbags, and up to the steep, narrow street where carriages were waiting to take them to the Forester home. The wide grounds and gardens were already gay with the gathering guests. Pretty, flower-decked tables were set in the maze. The trees were hung with Japanese lanterns, that a little later would glow into jewelled lights. There was a group of "grown-ups" on the porch,Fake Designer Handbags,--mamma, beautiful in cloudy white; sisters and cousins and aunts,--for the Forester family was a large one. There were two grandmothers--one fat and one thin,--very elegant old ladies, with white hair rolled high upon their heads. They looked upon the youthful guests, through gold lorgnettes, and were really most awe-inspiring.
The St. Andrew's boys were brought up and "presented" in due form. It was an ordeal. How Dan got through with it he didn't know,fake uggs for sale. He had never before been "presented" to any one but Polly. But dad managed it somehow, and on the porch friendly shadows were gathering that concealed any social discrepancies. Then Polly flitted off to don her party dress, and Dan found himself stranded on the danger reefs of this strange world, with dad giving the fat grandmother his family history.
"Dolan?" repeated the old lady, who was a little deaf. "One of the Dolans of Maryland, you say, Pemberton? Dear me! I used to visit Dolan Hall when I was a girl. Such a beautiful old Colonial home! Is it still standing?" she said, turning to Dan.
"I--I don't know, ma'am," stammered Dan, who found the gleam of the gold lorgnettes most confusing.
"What does he say?" asked the old lady sharply.
"That he does not know, mother dear!" answered dad.
"He should know," said the old lady, severely. "The young people are growing up in these careless days without any proper sentiment to the past. A home like Dolan Hall, with its memories and traditions, should be a pride to all of the Dolan blood. The name is really French--D'Olane,--but most unfortunately, as I consider, was anglicized. The family was originally from Touraine, and dates back to the Crusaders, and is most aristocratic."
"He looks it," murmured the thin grandmother, fixing her lorgnettes on Dan's broad shoulders as he moved away to join Tad and Freddy, who were making friends with Polly's poodle. "I have never seen a boy carry himself better. Blood will tell, as I have always insisted, Stella."
The lady at her side laughed,nike shox torch 2. She, too, had been regarding Dan with curious interest.
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