In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce?
She is a girl whose picture appeared in the newspaper.
"He was sitting on the backless chair in his aunt’s kitchen. A lamp with a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the fireplace and by its light his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees. She looked a long time at a smiling picture that was set in it and said musingly:
– The beautiful Mabel Hunter!
A ringletted girl stood on tiptoe to peer at the picture and said softly:
– What is she in, mud?
– In a pantomime, love.
The child leaned her ringletted head against her mother’s sleeve, gazing on the picture, and murmured as if fascinated:
– The beautiful Mabel Hunter!
As if fascinated, her eyes rested long upon those demurely taunting eyes and she murmured devotedly:
– Isn’t she an exquisite creature?"
February 15th, 2010 at 9:53 am
She is a girl whose picture appeared in the newspaper.
"He was sitting on the backless chair in his aunt’s kitchen. A lamp with a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the fireplace and by its light his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees. She looked a long time at a smiling picture that was set in it and said musingly:
– The beautiful Mabel Hunter!
A ringletted girl stood on tiptoe to peer at the picture and said softly:
– What is she in, mud?
– In a pantomime, love.
The child leaned her ringletted head against her mother’s sleeve, gazing on the picture, and murmured as if fascinated:
– The beautiful Mabel Hunter!
As if fascinated, her eyes rested long upon those demurely taunting eyes and she murmured devotedly:
– Isn’t she an exquisite creature?"
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