[Gypsy’s Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps]@TWC D-Link bookGypsy’s Cousin Joy CHAPTER XII 2/27
I suppose I ought to describe it, but it was so rainy I didn't notice it very much.
I think monuments look like big ghosts, and then I'm always afraid they'll tumble over on me. "Gypsy said she wondered whether George Washington ever looked down out of heaven to see the monuments, and cities, and towns, and all the things that are named after him, and what he thought about it.
Wasn't it queer in her? "We stopped at a great cathedral there is in Baltimore, too.
It was very handsome, only so dark.
I saw some Irish women saying their prayers round in the pews, and there was a dish of holy water by the door, and they all dipped their fingers in it and crossed themselves as they went in and out. "We saw ever so many negroes in Baltimore, too.
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