Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1121
d kept, with greatest care,by her father, whose heart was filled with pridefor his talented little girl. By a sad fate the poor father was not destinedlong to see the progress of his daughter, for 1090 PUSSY S FRIEND. when she was only eleven years old he lost hiseyesight and became totally blind.… … AT HOME IN THE STUDIO. talent which he recognized should be developedto the utmost became, even in his blindness,his ruling passion. From this time commencedfor the young girl a life of such hard andconstant labor that I fear there are not evenmany boys in America who would not have feltlike…
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