barronessers

Updated: May 26, 2025

Closs, while I'm gone for I mean to strike while the iron is hot just have the goodness to look in on Mrs. S., she will feel it a compliment, being a trifle homesick and lonesome down here. But tell her to keep a stiff upper lip; there isn't many ladies, not even your barronessers and duchessers, that shall outshine her at the grand party up yonder."

Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens - The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals