A pleased expression came into Miss Patty 's face . `` I think a great deal of those dogs , '' she said proudly . `` They are over a hundred years old , and they have sat on either side of this fireplace ever since my brother Aaron brought them from London fifty years ago . 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 XXXXX rent the house wanted to know if they could n't take the name off the gate during their occupation of it .
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