When he was reading to her, he seemed to be Legitimizing his presence there; and though she had no doubts or suspicions whatever, she was easier in her heart while she had him employed in that office.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The certificate of my birth as the daughter of Lucrezia Ferris, unmarried, by Count Spicca who acknowledged the child as his-and the certificate of your marriage with Lucrezia Ferris, dated-strangely enough a fortnight after my birth-and further a document Legitimizing me as the lawful daughter of you two.
"Don Orsino"
F. Marion Crawford