dower-chest

Updated: June 24, 2025

All those books we found in the old dower-chest, that day when we were playing about together as children, belonged to him some are his own compositions, written by his own hand, the others, as you know, are printed books which must have been difficult to get in his day, and are now, I suppose, quite out of date and almost unknown.

Marie Corelli - Innocent : her fancy and his fact