Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . IN OLD BOSTON 69 possible. The subject was Beauty. Each hadwritten her definition and Margaret began withreading her own. This called forth questions,comments and illustrations on all sides. Thestyle and manner, of course, in this are different,but the question, the high point from which itwas considered, and the earnestness and sim-plicity of the discussion as well as the gifts andgraces of the speakers, gave it the charm of aPlatonic dialogue. There was no pretensionof pedantry in a word that
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . IN OLD BOSTON 69 possible. The subject was Beauty. Each hadwritten her definition and Margaret began withreading her own. This called forth questions,comments and illustrations on all sides. Thestyle and manner, of course, in this are different,but the question, the high point from which itwas considered, and the earnestness and sim-plicity of the discussion as well as the gifts andgraces of the speakers, gave it the charm of aPlatonic dialogue. There was no pretensionof pedantry in a word that was said. The toneof remark and question was simple as that ofchildren in a school class; and, I believe, everyone was satisfied. Not quite everyone; not Harriet Martineau,for instance, whom Margaret had come to knowthrough her friend Mrs. John Farrar, and towhom, upon the publication of the in America, Margaret protested thatundue emphasis had there been placed uponthe anti-slavery movement. This Miss Mar-tineau appears to have resented, for when shecame to write her Autobiography
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