Three generations

THREE GENERATIONS
BY MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1923
Copyright, 1923 , By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published October, 1923 Printed in the United States of America
To JOHN ELLIOTT



March 1st, 1916.
Henry James is dead. The news came to-day. A sudden warmth of old friendship, a kindness of other years leaps up within me, and the memory of how he looked at our house in Rome on a certain birthday of his that corresponds to my own latest milestone.
It was a warm day in mid-April. We were lunching on the terrace of the Palazzo Rusticucci, among the roses that shielded us from the windows of the Vatican. We drank his health in his favorite vino di Orvieto ; he bowed with that exquisite courtesy of his and said in answer to our congratulations: