oldbookillustrations: - Tell me, Mrs. Jones, who is that young Adonis your married daughter is looking up to so eagerly? - Her husband, Mrs. Snarley. - Dear me, you don’t say so! I congratulate you… Now I understand how you come to have such good-looking grand-children. George Du Maurier, from English society, New York, 1897. (Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

- Tell me, Mrs. Jones, who is that young Adonis your married daughter is looking up to so eagerly?
- Her husband, Mrs. Snarley.
- Dear me, you don’t say so! I congratulate you… Now I understand how you come to have such good-looking grand-children.

George Du Maurier, from English society, New York, 1897.

(Source: archive.org)

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