Life — January 23, 1913 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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The sight of a bill which came in the morning's mail transfixed her with stern, un- yielding emotions until the moment it was paid, for instantly the moni cither in cash or check, was sent to the creditor by messenger. The letter of condolence; the party call; the return of a book (if Aunt Jane ever permitted one to be bor- rowed!); the arrangements for a journey; the preparations for a feast and those various ecclesiastic engage- ments which to-day we sniff at and outwardly satirize—these and many ever such more were hailed by Aunt Jane with a sublime joy. indeed a keen It was intellectual pleasure to observe the way she proached a disagreeable task; a kind of holy joy pervaded her austere frame for days or hours beforehand; and during the hour of battle how her figure towered aloft! To-day our dear unmarried aunts may be seen in goggles, sipping horse's necks at wayside inns. 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