Show HIS DAUGIITER NELLIE Favorite Child Grants Gcneral U11111JP In his Last Chccrin Days nndpr that the arrival oC Nellie wonder It is Cos revived her fathers spirits Grant Sartoris her fathers favorite > Tellie Grant was and she was a lovely girl Being child a daughter 11 he not only set great the only her hut had high ambition for tore h at the moment when Even Iicrutu5rn I going out to Sartoris her her heart was hoping 1 that her life might be father was ioi and c useful one m this land a prominent Nellie ame to the Vhite When she 1iss was still in short dresses and House is seen she married very young hence it no young lady in washington robabi at any time was ever ton society respected or more sincerely more highly Nellie jmnt She was l than WiS loVetI Snhfg affable discreet and brlgl to all No ladies who have oc geilCittS White House had more true copied the Mrs Grant and this friends than frielids It was 1111 natural then that laughter old j warrIOr should expect to t1rd thC stflrIV of its StUron ntrynen one of hs own See onc o and Kt lead this favored child bravest 1tar Sd then into a life as high to the for which he had in flit coutry Si as iniidi This was 110 unreason lOfle dSPjGuhbOhi so Iiii and her preference for lhIc 1r 5aroris lsII was naturally a bitter disap Mr It to all Infafnieiit to her father was sJiiigtOIl society When it was an I noanccd that this favored American girl So marry an Englishman a chill ran rtoo h the entire circle who enjoyed companionship But while the ha father was grieved he threw no obstacles in the way of his daughters choice and the marriage took place It is said by those nearest to the family that her going to a foreign land increased rather than decreased the fathers affection and that as soon as his malady began to prey upon his iron will his chief wish was for Nellie It is no wonder that her coming has given him new heart and there is much that is touching in the meeting of the great soldier and this child He may not have much longer to live but his last days will he easier for the light which vent out of his house while he was the ruler of the nation has returned to make his sick chamber cheerful and his last days happier |