The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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wedding. I could not enjoy their gaiety and merriment;
their very happiness made me sad, - happiness which had so
little foundation, and was so short-lived.

GIVING THE BRIDAL COUPLE A GOOD SEND-OFF.
The company filed in, followed by the black musicians with their banjos and fiddles.
Uncle Aaron was loth to say "good-bye " to us, for our
presence gave great social prestige to the occasion. I urged
our departure on several fictitiou-s grounds, for never was I
more homesick than at a slave merry-making. What a
strange day it had been! Was I only seven or eight hundred
miles from my New England home, or had I been transported to another planet?