Identifier: fictionalrambles1902prin (find matches)
Title: Fictional rambles in & about Boston
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Prindle, Frances Carruth, b. 1867
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Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips and company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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o 37 FICTIONAL RAMBLES godliness in the dark, self-contained parlours ;and if pedigree were not in this dwelling im-puted for righteousness, it was evidently heldin becoming reverence as the first of virtues. In this exclusive neighbourhood must havelived Peter Calvin (The Philistines), awealthy and well-meaning man against whombut two grave charges could be made—thathe supposed the growth of art in this countryto depend largely upon his patronage, and thathe could never be persuaded not to take him-self seriously. Mr. Calvin was regarded byPhilistine circles in Boston as a sort of re-in-carnation of Apollo, clothed upon with modernenlightenment, and properly arrayed in re-spectable raiment. Judge Rathmire, whose fortunes were soclosely intermingled with The Curse of theOld South Church, is described in that novelas living in splendid style in Mount VernonStreet. A view of the charming block ofhouses before which we have been loiteringwas to be had by the Kents (Piers The Senti- 3§
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39 IN AND ABOUT BOSTON mentalists), who lived directly opposite in athin, flat-fronted house by which Mr. Pier 7 *< n^mmt^mmmax* i ~ ^«j**»- ■K 1 t^r-M ™ --fl .1 i i J Si -m V i ■ ■•■ — ,,*.. i--i ipi sj . S****^ «S3«EfeJ«WSi; g Safest 82 MOUNT VERNON STREET—THE HOME OFTHE RANDOLPHS He had almost reached their house when hesaw a slender girl coming down the steps.—Miss Whites Miss Brooks. meant anyone of the several that answers tothis description. Below the Kents on the sameside of the street at Number 82, is the house 41 FICTIONAL RAMBLES in which the creator of the happy-go-luckyRandolphs (Miss Whites Miss Brooks) im-

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