Item - In Twenty Years

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Online Full Text:	Stanford Digital Repository
Series:	New York Weekly — v. 24 no. 49 — page 4
Subject / Tag:	Sketch
Part of:	New York Weekly, v. XXIV, no. 49, October 21, 1869 (Issue)
Author:	Blount, Margaret, 1835-approximately 1906
Date:	October 21, 1869
First Sentence:	"And so you think there is really nothing serious in Margaret's naughtiness, my dear sir," said a fashionably dressed lady of some five-and-forty summers, to a gentleman some fifteen years her junior, who stood beside the open library window, with his hands in his pockets, regarding her with an amused smile.
Last Sentence:	I sometimes wonder if people ever really know how to love before gray hairs begin to come to teach them.