This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...large spectacles with very broad black bows. Her face was quite thin, and being about sixty-six, say seventy, in appearance, and having probably forgotten the dentist, or the brush, (the former is the best forgotten, if you would keep your own teeth, ) what was principally designed to separate the jaws had dropped out, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt: ...large spectacles with very broad black bows. Her face was quite thin, and being about sixty-six, say seventy, in appearance, and having probably forgotten the dentist, or the brush, (the former is the best forgotten, if you would keep your own teeth, ) what was principally designed to separate the jaws had dropped out, and her nose and chin were in most striking juxtaposition. Now what a figure of a woman was this! Who in these days, when our belles, ('W/, as a satirical neighbor sometimes calls them) have adopted such strange metamoiphoses as meet our eye every day, and who in their whole guise, or disguise, run so counter to my street antagonism, --who could be stopped by such a personage, and not be alarmed. She had an " unruly member," and its existence was declared after a manner which could leave no doubt on this matter. "Now you don't!" she began bawling. " I believe in my soul it must be! Why it must be! How do you do, Mr. Oldcastle? Its forty year since I see you, and you look just as you did. Bless me, the same silver buckles and all! I raly believe you've forgotten me. I am Miss Holdeen, that lived on the corner of Frog lane. You knew my husband, Jonathan Holdeen. We went to the West, and there he died of the shakes and fever, and his Doctor said his liver was as big as himself, but I never see it. How is the girls? " This question attracted me. Miss Holden, as she styled herself, had known the three spinsters with whom I board, when she and they were girls. After an early marriage, she had gone to Kentucky, (I should have said, she knew me when a boy, ) and though so far away, she contrived to keep the run of things at home. She did so by means of an old crony, who about twice a year filled a sheet about home, quite a...
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