Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 187
foreign princes or American mil-lionaires would have impressed her and hercorrespondents far less. It was like the feelingthat Americans are apt to have when they firstvisit London or Paris and see—in N. P. Willissphrase—- whole shelves of their library walkingabout in coats and gowns; and, strange… … THE OLD CORNER BOOK-STORE. at Boston. While I was talking with the mostpromising of these — the daughter of a clergy-man in northern Vermont — I saw Dr. O. W.Holmes pass through the shop, and pointedhim out to her. She gazed eagerly after himuntil he was out of sight, and then said, draw-ing a long…
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