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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than a human being. He was so spare of flesh that it was
said of him, "he had hardly body enough to conceal the
nakedness ofhs soul," and this sentence fails to give one an
idea of his attenuation.
I do not remember the object of this meeting at the
house of Lord Coleridge, though I have an idea it related to
anti-vivisection, nor was I as much interested in it as in the
people who attended it. Of those who addressed the meeting, Cardinal Manning's utterances were the most notable.
Although an old man, there was no sign of age or infirmity
about him. He spoke with authority, and his words were
accepted as finalities. His eyes burned with a dull but intense fire, as if they gave out heat, and his look seemed to
penetrate to one's soul. He was deferred to as a being of a
higpher order than any other of the company. I observed
that he deferred most respectfully to Miss Cobbe whenever
she spoke, and in one or two instances when she uttered
most pronounced opinions, he assented instantly and heartily, without waitingl for the endorsement of others.
We availed ourselves of the general invitation of Rev
Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Conway, and attended their Monday
afternoon receptions as frequently as possible. Here we
always met most interesting people, - authors, philanthropists, reformers, and scholars; members of the Brahmo Somaj of India; officials from Mohammedan countries, who
spoke Arabic, and were almost converts to the religion of
the prophet, so orderly and civilized were the lives of his
followers, among whom they had dwelt; polyglot people,
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