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Chapter Seven
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And now, on rounds of family dinners Tanya they trundle daily to present to grandsires and to grandams 4 her abstract indolence. For kin come from afar there's everywhere a kind reception, and exclamations, and good cheer. 8 "How Tanya's grown! Such a short while it seems since I godmothered you!" "And since I bore you in my arms!" "And since I pulled you by the ears!" 12 "And since I fed you gingerbread!" And the grandmothers keep repeating in chorus: "How our years do fly!"