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Un`fil´ial
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| From a letter of my great-grandmother's written to a stubborn daughter upon some unfilial behavior, like running away to be married, I suspect that she was fond of the high-colored fiction of her day, for she tells the wilful child that she has "planted a dagger in her mother's heart," and I should not be surprised if it were from this fine-languaged lady that my grandfather derived his taste for poetry rather than from his father, who was of a worldly wiser mind. said poor Joe; adding under his breath, with a very unfilial apostrophe, 'Will he never think me man enough to take care of myself A joke so foolish and unfilial wasn't worth explaining. |
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