Word: flynn
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Dates: during 1878-1878
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...elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women without, but bearing marks of one life-long toothache. What I particularly noticed was the grief that seemed to pervade all. One woman with a face like a baked apple called in the greatest despair, unceasingly, "Miss Flynn, O Miss Flynn !" Presently she burst into tears, and propounded two questions to her neighbors in general, the first relative to a mother's feelings, and, failing to receive an answer, the next whether any one had anything about them to keep a poor widow from fainting. It transpired shortly...
...suggested Samoa. Unhappy venture! He began with Samoa, and opened a controversy upon the question of our country's buying it. As he turned his head, however, at the sound of the Introit, I slipped out. As I followed in the steps of my friends, "Alas! Miss Flynn," said I, "the bigotry of Catholicism has made too many like you. If your only religion is in the rosary and the credo, God help you, the blame lies not at your door...