Spofford Avenue was called after my brother Aaron . '' `` A fine man he was , '' said Miss Maria , speaking for the first time . `` Ah , you do n't see the like of him nowadays . '' `` He was a good uncle to you , Maria , '' said Miss Patty , with evident emotion . `` You do well to remember him . '' `` I shall always remember him , '' said Miss Maria solemnly . `` I can see him , this minute , standing there before that fire , with his hands under his coat-tails , beaming on us . '' Miss Maria took out her handkerchief and wiped her eyes ; but Miss Patty came resolutely back from the regions of sentiment to those of business . `` I shall leave the dogs where they are , if you will promise to be very careful of them , '' she said . `` Their names are Gog and Magog . Gog looks to the right and Magog to the left . And there 's just one thing more . You do n't object , I hope , to this house being called Patty 's Place ? '' `` No , indeed . We think that is one of the nicest things about it . '' `` You have sense , I see , '' said Miss Patty in a tone of great satisfaction . `` Would you believe it ? All the people who came here to rent the house wanted to know if they could n't take the name off the gate during their occupation of it . I told them roundly that the name went with the house . This has been Patty 's Place ever since my brother Aaron left it to me in his will , and Patty 's Place it shall remain until I die and Maria dies .
After that happens the next possessor can call it any fool name he likes , '' concluded Miss Patty , much as she might have XXXXX , `` After that -- the deluge . ''
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