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 240
t fervent in defence of friends. Living on praise as thevery breath of her life, flattery, no matter how gross, seemed never to exceed herright. No doubt much of womanliness was sacrificed to that perpetual exerciseof self-dependence. Self-dependence is not the natural destiny of… … THE MONUMBNT TO LADY MOKOAN. and eyes, she glided about in a close-cropped wig, bound by a fillet or solid band ofgold, her face all animation, and with a witty word for everj^body. Notwith-standing her natural defects, she made a picturesque appearance. Another writer,alluding to the unevenness of…
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