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    The Story of a Picture
    The Story of a Picture
    The Story of a Picture
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    The Story of a Picture

    By Douglass Sherley

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Story of a Picture - Douglass Sherley

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      Title: The Story of a Picture

      Author: Douglass Sherley

      Release Date: February 18, 2005 [EBook #15095]

      Language: English

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      A Dainty Trifle for my Lady Love

      THE STORY OF

      A PICTURE

      By Douglass Sherley

      John P. Morton & Co., Louisville,

      1884.

      Copyrighted 1884,

      By Douglass Sherley.

      There was a colored crayon in a crowded shop-window. Other people passed it by, but a Youth of the Town, with Hope in his heart, leaned over the guard-rail and looked upon the beauty of that pictured face long and earnestly.

      It was the head of a pretty girl with dark hair and dark eyes. She was clad in a dainty white gown, loose-flowing and beautiful. In her left hand, slender and uplifted, a letter; in her right a pen, and beneath it a spotless page.

      She was seated within the shadow of a white marble chimney-piece richly carved with Cupids, fluttering, kneeling, supplicating; with arrows new, broken, and mended; with quivers full, depleted, and empty. The great, broad shelf

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