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The Mysterious Face

"The Mysterious Face." New York Saturday Press. 11 Jan. 1859: 4.
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.