Little Tora the Swedish Schoolmistress And Other Stories
Little Tora the Swedish Schoolmistress And Other Stories
Sarah S Sarah Schoonmaker Baker
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As to the little woman who had given Johanson so ungracious a receptionon his first appearance in her room, he had evidently taken an aversionto her society. When she came into his duplicated quarters, he wasalways looking out into the street, or so occupied that she had a betterview of his back than of his face. He never named her, nor was she evermentioned in the establishment by her lawful cognomen, but was alwaysspoken of as "she, " representing alone, as she did, her own sex in thepoorhous...e. It seemed to her a wonder that with all her claims to respectability shehad ever found her way to her present home. The walls of her room weredecorated with silhouettes of this or that grand personage in whoseservice she had enjoyed the honour of being in days of yore. Suchmementoes failing her, there were coveted seals to letters, or paperheadings cut out and duly pointed at the edges, to shine forth from redbackgrounds. A daguerreotype of herself, in all the buxom freshness ofyouth and the "bravery" of a gaily-adorned peasant costume, was alwaysto be seen standing on her bureau half open, like the book of anabsent-minded scholar disturbed in his researches.
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