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She Saw Herself for What He Had Said, and Swooned
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Howard Pyle
(American, 1853 - 1911)
She Saw Herself for What He Had Said, and Swooned
Oil on canvas
1909
27 1/8 × 18 1/8 in. (68.9 × 46 cm)
2007.11.43
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Brokaw, 2007
Not on view
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Thereafter she clung close about Randver
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She Was Continually Beset by Spies
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She still cooked for us when Tom asked her, but she never touched a pill herself. If there is any harder test for will power, you'll have to show it to me
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"Speak Up, Boy, --Speak Up," Said the Gentleman
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She Is Drunk. It Will Soon Pass Away
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I am Captain John Mackra ("I am Captain John Mackra," Said I, and I Sat Down upon the Gunwale of the Boat)
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Dropping one of the sage-hens I asked the man behind me to pick it up. As he was groping for it I pulled one of my Colt's revolvers, and hit him over the head. He dropped senseless. // "Wheeling about I saw that the other man, hearing the fall, had turned, his hand upon his revolver. It was no time for argument. I fired and killed him."
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Step by step she forced herself to move across the floor till she stood above the bed.
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