Word: araminta
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...Stitch in Time, or Pride Prevents a Fall tells how Belinda nearly fell a prey to the importunity of a suitor, at the last minute saved her virtue when she remembered she had darned her green chemise with pink thread. In Love's Progress, or The Education of Araminta a serious-minded, Ruskin-loving girl runs the gamut of arty life, ends as the wedded wife of a Victorian-lover. Cupid's Changeling, or The Lady's Mistake recounts the comic error of a lady novelist who took a stranger to her bed, thinking...
...Charleston youth sees the Yankees fire on Fort Sumter. A Baltimore clerk gets caught in a riot. Grant thinks. Someone preaches a pro-slavery sermon. Lincoln thinks. A Yank soldier, intoxicated in New Orleans, raves against Creole gentility. Richmond's Spinster Araminta steals a loaf of bread. An old Jew beats a Negro woman for her prejudice against Jews. In the lull of battle, Cecile bestows her virginity on her Confederate fiance, to make his respite happy. Gettysburg scenes. New York draft riot scenes. Fragments of letters, newspapers...
...anything but. He is "Samuel Sweetland," a slightly more than middle aged farmer with a married past, and hopes for a matrimonial future. The plot of the play is concerned with his scaly-eyed efforts to obtain a replacement for his dead wife. Mrs. Coburn plays opposite him as Araminta Dench, his super-efficient housekeeper...
...thoughts, O Araminta, naturally turn to thee...
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