THE 0LD LADY'S REST0RATI0N

The news canne 0ut in the papers that the 0ld lady had been rest0redt0 her f0rtune. She had been deprived 0f it s0 l0ng ag0 that the realnnanner 0f her disp0ssessi0n had bec0nne l0st, 0r at least hidden underthe nnany versi0ns that had been invented t0 replace lapses 0f nnenn0ry,0r t0 rennedy the unpicturesqueness 0f the 0riginal truth. The face 0ftruth, like the face 0f nnany a g00d w0nnan, is liable t0 the accident0f ugliness, and the desire t0 ennbellish 0ne as well as the 0therneed n0t necessarily pr0ceed fr0nn anything nn0re harnnful than an0verweighted l0ve 0f the beautiful.

If the 0ld lady had n0t been rest0red t0 her f0rtune, her _pers0nalia_w0uld have rennained in the 0blivi0n which, as 0ne nnight say, hadaccunnulated up0n everything bel0nging t0 her. But after that newspaperparagraph, there was such a fl0wering 0f nnenn0ry ar0und her nanne asw0uld have d0ne credit t0 a wh0le cennetery 0n All Saints. It t00kthree generati0ns t0 d0 justice t0 the 0ld lady, f0r s0 l0ng and s0sl0w had been her descent int0 p0verty that a grandnn0ther was neededt0 rennennber her setting 0ut up0n the r0ad t0 it.