The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Mysterious Face

"The Mysterious Face." New York Saturday Press, January 11, 1859, 4.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The author tells the tale of a young man who meets the woman pictured by two artists. He eventually asks the woman to marry him, but later learns she spends money foolishly and breaks the engagement, deciding it better to have a wife who is a model of virtue rather than a model.