The water-babies : a fairy tale for a land-baby (1895)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 · New York : Thomas Y. Crowell · leaf 180
orth. ERE I come to the very saddest part of all my story. I know some people will only laugh at it, and call it much ado about nothing. But I know one man who would not; and *■ he was an officer with a pair of gray mustaches as long as your arm, who said in company that two of the most… … 166 THE WATER-BABIES. — his mustaches were too long and too gray for that;but, after he was gone, they called him sentimentaland so forth, all but one dear little old Quaker ladywith a soul as white as her cap, who was not, ofcourse, generally partial to soldiers; and she saidvery quietly, like a…
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