Word: misses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...find fault with Mrs. Burnett for giving us such a character as Miss Ffrench; on the contrary, she deserves congratulation for the ingenuity evinced in its creation. It is, for the most part, consistent; she has breathed into the machinery a semblance of life, as I have indicated. In fact, Miss Ffrench stands out in literature a masterpiece of invention, - a made woman. Our only ground for complaint is that Mrs. Burnett would have us consider that character real. From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story...
FAST. - How my eyes ache! How my head hums! Oh! that I could have gone to Miss Vasaline's German to-night instead of memorizing those Chinese books for to-morrow's examination...
...Miss Jackson had come to England to visit her aunt, Salvation Rogers. Aunt Salvation - called Salvy by her intimate friends - had had the misfortune to be born in Bangor. No one, however, was more ashamed of this fact than she herself. At the age of ten she had come to England, and had lived there ever since. She had never married; she had tried hard to become an English-woman, and had succeeded to a certain extent; but her birth was against...
...Aunt Salvy's Miss Tommie became acquainted with the Earl of London. The earl was no slouch; he had his ideas. He was an extreme Liberal and he loved Americans. He was very curious about the United States, particularly Boston, Cambridgeport, - where Harvard College is situated, - and Bangor. He one day asked our heroine if the Boston Poncas had not yet been removed to any reservation, and if Carl Schurz were not the governor of Massachusetts. He wanted to know if Roscoe Conkling had not been elected President, and if the Concord poet were not to be Secretary of State...
Then he said, "Miss Jackson...