My mother has described in her _Reminiscences_ the wonderful
wedding-tour in Europe. In Rome, her eldest daughter, Julia Romana, was
born. She fancied she saw, in the baby’s radiant little face, a
reflection of the beautiful forms and faces she had so earnestly
contemplated before the child’s coming. Other people saw it there in
after-years. The exaltation of her mother’s spirit deeply influenced the
mind and character of sister Julia, “the first-born daughter of a hero’s
heart.” She was so unworldly that she did not know what worldliness was.
Her lovely face and rapt upward look have, fortunately, been preserved
by the pencil of our uncle, Luther Terry.
After a year and a half in Europe my parents returned to America. The
European travel had been by post, in their own carriage. The tour had
been expensive and economy was for a time necessary. My mother
accordingly did some clerical work, thus earning the money for my
baby-clothes.
I soon evinced a practical turn of mind, very different from that of my
sister. The tendency to economy with which the family have sometimes
reproached me is due, as I believe, to pre-natal influences. Perhaps it
is also an inheritance from French ancestors!
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