Mary Mitford
Mary Mitford
Mary Russell Mitfordwas an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford, Hampshire. She is best known in English literature for Our Village. This series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters was based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a hamlet in the parish of Shinfield, near Reading in Berkshire, where she lived...
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Dogs are all, more or less, physiognomists, and commonly pretty determined aristocrats, fond of the fine and averse to the shabby, distinguishing, with a nice accuracy, the master castes from the pariahs of the world.
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She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.