Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 257
was the portrait of a lady withsword-thrusts through it, — marks of the Brit-ish officers rapiers, — and this is the same picturethat now hangs on the wall of the library in BeaconStreet. On her hand a parrot green Sits nnmoving and broods serene ; Hold up the canvas full in view — Look, there s a… … the autocrats great-grandmother? His musicalverses have engraved it in the minds of thousandswho never saw the picture, or even a reproductionof it. Cambridge was then a country village, and itwas a pleasant walk through fields and lanes to the school in Cambridgeport, to which Oliver Wendellwas…
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