A Little Journey in the World

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Charles Dudley Warner. A Little Journey in the World

A Little Journey in the World

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A LITTLE JOURNEY IN THE WORLD

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In the evening, at our house, Margaret described the scene in the park

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Charles Dudley Warner

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Although the recent books were on Miss Forsythe's table, her tastes and culture were of the past age. She admired Emerson and Tennyson. One may keep current with the news of the world without changing his principles. I imagine that Miss Forsythe read without injury to herself the passionate and the pantheistic novels of the young women who have come forward in these days of emancipation to teach their grandmothers a new basis of morality, and to render meaningless all the consoling epitaphs on the mossy New England gravestones. She read Emerson for his sweet spirit, for his belief in love and friendship, her simple Congregationalist faith remaining undisturbed by his philosophy, from which she took only a habit of toleration.

“Miss Debree has gone to church,” she said, in answer to Mr. Lyon's glance around the room.

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