Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers |
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Author:
| Marquis, Don |
ISBN: | 979-8-6850-5558-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2021 |
Publisher: | Independently Published
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.99 |
Book Description:
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Book Excerpt: ...furniture and chairs and snuff boxes and swords and fire irons and things.I bought the loveliest old spinet -- truly, a fine!I can sit down to it and image I am my own grandmother's grandmother, you know.And it's wonderful to sit among those old heir- looms and feel the sense of my ancestors' personalities throbbing and pulsing all about me!I feel, when I sit at the spinet, that my personality is truly represented by my surroundings at last.I feel that I have at last...
More DescriptionBook Excerpt: ...furniture and chairs and snuff boxes and swords and fire irons and things.I bought the loveliest old spinet -- truly, a fine!I can sit down to it and image I am my own grandmother's grandmother, you know.And it's wonderful to sit among those old heir- looms and feel the sense of my ancestors' personalities throbbing and pulsing all about me!I feel, when I sit at the spinet, that my personality is truly represented by my surroundings at last.I feel that I have at last achieved sincerity in the midst of my traditions.And there's a picture of the loveliest old lady . . . old fashioned costume, you know, and all that . . . and the hair dressed in a very peculiar way. . . .Mamma says its a MADE-UP picture -- not really an antique at all -- but I can just feel the personality vibrating from it.I got it at a bargain, too.I call her -- the picture, you know -- after an ancestress of mine who came to this country in the old Colonial days.With William the Conqueror, you know...