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IN THE OLD HERRICK HOUSE.
BY ELLEN DOUGLAS DELAND.
CHAPTER I.
here are but few dwelling-houses left which are occupied as such in thatpart of Philadelphia which was once so fashionable, the neighborhood ofIndependence Square. The rooms within the stately old mansions are nowused by lawyers and other professional men for their offices, andbusiness signs adorn the brick fronts without. There are one or twoexceptions to this rule, however, and there was one house where thedescendants of a long line of ancestors still lived in the home of theirfathers.
The two Misses Herrick prided themselves upon having been born andbrought up in the old house in Fourth Street, the same house in whichGeneral Washington had so often supped with their great-grandfather,when the table was adorned with the blue I