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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 146

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aces, began to paint these agedwomen as well as the children. And so the oldladies still sit quietly, their frosty locks drawn smoothunder queer lace caps, or bound by gay kerchiefs,their tear-dimmed eyes closing drowsily and thetoil-cramped fingers resting idly in their laps; buteven while they… … HE HAS ESCAPED almost reverence upon him. His own son over-tops him, and addresses his father playfully as My good little author; but there is a dignitymingled with his gentle courtesy which removesany impression of insignificance. The men and women who were in middle lifewhen he came to Ecouen…

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