Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg and Company · leaf 28
a canvas, and thencolored it as best I could, without anyhelp except such as the study of myown face afforded for the flesh tints.Such as it was, I carried the pictureto a good-natured bookseller, who con-sented to put it in his shop-window.I own that I often found an excuse forpassing along that… … ABRAHAM LIXCOLN. A Sketch of my Life. 23 A Catholic priest from the countryhappened to pass that way, and stoppedto look at the picture. Catholic priestsare not rich now; in those days theywere terribly poor. After hesitating, hewent in and asked whether that picturewas for sale. My friend the…
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