mary-of-the-angels

Updated: May 31, 2025

Mother Mary-of-the-Angels, once Elise Gautier, was short, fat, and bustling, with large round-eyed spectacles upon her nose, and the pasty complexion and premature flaccid wrinkles that come with long seclusion from sunshine and exercise.

Various - Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885