Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 503
etches, which is certainly a verylarge name for quite a small book. But itproved a veritable treasure-mine for her asshe pored over the queer-looking faces. And they were faces such as we seldom see inthis age. Perhaps the artist did not catch the meaning of old Theophrastuss descriptions, forthey… … There in bold outline she found The Dis-agreeable, with pouting lips and wrinkled fore-head. A companion whose conversation istedious, and whose manners are unpleasing;and she vowed away down in her little heartthat she would never be disagreeable again,even to Jim. There she found The Vain, who,…
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