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Excerpt from Madeleine Graham, Vol. 1 of 3
The three principals were themselves most accomplished ladies, as became them - sisters.
The eldest Miss Sparx, who had received the name of Susannah from her godfathers and godmothers, was verging on her forty-seventh year, unmarried; and her temper was not supposed to be improved by the circumstance. She was Skilled in every species of fine work, and understood the Use of the Globes, as was proved by her wearing spectacles while the pupils turned those spherical bodies, celestial and terrestrial, round and round, with indiffer ence or eagerness, according to idiosyncrasy, working out the recondite problems contained in certain small 12mo books, handsomely bound in red imitation calf, with a frontispiece by which you could always tell, given your own time, what o'clock it was at Pekin: the same being entitled, in letters of gold, Goldsmith's Geography.
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