A book of memories of great men and women of the age, from personal acquaintance (1877)
Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, St. John, Cynthia Morgan, 1852-1919. fmo, Wordsworth Collection · London, Virtue · leaf 134
, constructed, andadded to, for convenience. She had a singular power of abstraction, apparentlyhearing all that was said, and occasionally taking part in the conversation, whilepursuing her own occupation, and seemingly attending only to it. In that corner,and on that table, she had written nearly… … MISS EDGEWOKTH S UBKARY. that could explain or illustrate some topic on which some one was conversing : imme-diately she would resume her pen, and continue to write as if the thought had beenunbroken for an instant. I expressed to Mrs. Edgeworth surprise at this faculty, soopposed to my own habit.…
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