![]() If my ideas are wrong, I would like to be set right. Impossible! Unless she were a bold hypocrite, and obviously hypocrisy is not intended or thought of.Īnd if not a hypocrite, such rank inconsistency and incongruity of character could not exist except in a vivid imagination. ![]() Or that she could be so utterly inconsistent as to go out and work zealously in the cause of temperance reform when she had just finished putting up a lot of peaches saturated with brandy, which she purposed to serve indiscriminately? Is it possible that a woman of her intelligence and honesty of purpose could be so absolutely blind as not to know the inevitable consequences of giving to one with a passion for liquor “brandy peaches” so strong with brandy as to scent a whole room? Wallace, for instance, seems to me too absurd even for a story. I have been reading “The Livery of Heaven,” and, as one hoping your paper meets the highest standard of merit and helpfulness, I desire to make an emphatic protest against the unreality of some of the characters and descriptions of that story. So it might have been a bit surprising that the magazine that published “The Livery of Heaven” began to receive letters from readers like this one: The Letter: Magazine illustration for Grace’s story, “The Livery of Heaven.”Īfter all, Grace was 31 years old and had been writing and publishing her stories and novels since 1889, and they all sold very well. ![]()
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