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the meagre remains
over the meagre remains of yesterday’s meagre joint,
or puttering elegantly about the rose-bushes, old
ex Mary Stanbery Watts, The Legacy : A Story of a Woman (1911) : 8
and at hathitrust
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Mary Stanbery Watts (1868-1958)
wikipedia
and a wonderful chapter, most of it her letter to, Grant Overton, in his The Women Who Make Our Novels (1918) : 177-197
this, her house in Cincinnati, just north of the Ohio River