"[...]closing round and over it, and its one little human jewel, sent forth from its dingy case to sparkle and glitter, and become of hard necessity the single source of light in the growing gloom of its daily existence. And the contrast must have been cruel enough between the scenes into which the child's genius spasmodically lifted her, both in the assumed parts she performed and in the great London world where her success in their performance carried her, and the poor home, where sickness and sorrow were becoming abiding ...
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"[...]closing round and over it, and its one little human jewel, sent forth from its dingy case to sparkle and glitter, and become of hard necessity the single source of light in the growing gloom of its daily existence. And the contrast must have been cruel enough between the scenes into which the child's genius spasmodically lifted her, both in the assumed parts she performed and in the great London world where her success in their performance carried her, and the poor home, where sickness and sorrow were becoming abiding inmates, and poverty and privation[...]."
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Seller's Description:
Good Plus. This copy is from the library of David Herbert Donald, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of Charles Sumner and Thomas Wplfe and celebrated biographer of Abraham Lincoln. The front hinge on the book is beginning to loosen. There is foxing to the endpapers. The cloth on the boards shows wear at the corners and at the foot of the spine. The interior is clean, no marks of any kind.
