Other Fiction Ward, Mary Augusta: The History of David Grieve. v1. 3 Jun 2014

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Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; (11 June 1851 – 24 March 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward.

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But so indeed was that of the boy, whose dark colouring was more vivacious and pronounced than his sister’s, because the red of his cheek and lip was deeper, while his features, though larger than hers, were more finely regular, and his eyes had the same piercing blackness, the same all-examining keenness, as hers. The yellowish tones of his worn fustian suit and a red Tam-o’-Shanter cap completed the general effect of brilliancy and, as it were, foreignness.

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