Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 69
raceful girl, and their marriage had beenagreed on. Suddenly, having caught a badcold, which went to her lungs, after a briefillness she died. Irving, then twenty-six, borethe blow like a man, but he carried the scarto the grave. To his most intimate friendshe never mentioned her name. For several… … w^/^^/Sk fc^- From an etching by I D. Smillie after .1 sketch fro:at Sunnyside, July, 1848.* strange that a book of such bubbling humorshould be the result of those days of darkness;but as has often happened in literature, the writ-ings at which people laugh longest are the workof men who are grave…
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