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Reminiscences of a portrait painter (1894)

Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg and Company · leaf 132

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soft and tender heart. Hewas romantic too, and a preux chevalier.He would sing: love-ditties to his fairduchess, accompanying himself on theguitar. It was a little comical to see,perhaps, especially on account of hisbaldness and portly figure, but I neverfelt inclined to smile at this… … ALEXAXDER BARING. {Lord Ashburton.) Crowns and Coronets. 113 faults of pronunciation contracted in thenursery were still perceptible, in spiteof education and intelligence. She wasnearly always obliged to repeat the wordpicture to get it right, being alwaystempted to say pictur. She enviedthe…

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