His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe.
Harriet Beecher StoweAbout author
- Author's profession: Author
- Nationality: american
- Born: June 14, 1811
- Died: July 1, 1896
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