Comfort Pease and Her Gold Ring Quotes

“One of the first things which Comfort remembered being told was that she had been named for her Aunt Comfort, who had given her a gold ring and a gold dollar for her name. Comfort could not understand why. It always seemed to her that her aunt, and not she, had given the name, and that she should have given the ring and the dollar; but that was what her mother had told her. “Your Aunt Comfort gave you this beautiful gold ring and this gold dollar for your name,” said she.”
― Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Comfort Pease and Her Gold Ring: A Tale of Female Identity and Social Class in 19th Century New England