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Our Philadelphia (1914)

Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936, Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · Philadelphia and London : J. B. Lippincott Co. · leaf 146

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everhelp to dispose of my interminable hours. The placidbeauty of the shopless streets was of a kind to appeal moreto age than youth. I wonder to this day at the time Iallowed to pass before I shook off my respect for Phila-delphia conventions sufficiently to relieve the dulness ofmy life by… … JOHNSON HOUSE, GERMANTOWN TRANSITIONAL 129 the Park, by the Wissahickon, to Chestnut Hill, it waslooked upon as no less unladylike on our part than thenew generations cigarette and demand for the vote ontheirs. Eut if I did my duty, I was sadly bored by it.Often I turned homeward with that cruel…

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