Doudney, Sarah, 1843-1926, Kilburne, G. G · New York, Scribner and Welford · leaf 74
n in her clear voice, slowly and quietly, she spokethe first lines of a simple poem that told a very commonstory. It was not the poem that one would have expected herto recite to a fashionable audience in a drawing-room;but Miss Effingham was a genius, and (what is more im-portant still) a genius… … 498 MISS EFFINGHAM GIVES A DRAWING-ROOM RECITATION. . f THE EECITATION. *71 applaud that simple narrative in rhyme as if it had beenthe finest production of Tennyson or Browning. Moreover every one knows that the unexpected has astrange charm. And as she went on there were fewpresent who did not…
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