Crossword-Solution: MALLORY 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Mallory--wasn't that the sentimental young man, with wispy hair, a tallowy skin, and big, sweaty hands, who used to be spouting Carlyle on the 'reading evenings' at Shelldrake's? Yes, to be sure; and there was Hollins, with his clerical face and infidel talk,--and Pauline Ringtop, who used to say, 'The Beautiful is the Good.' I can still hear her shrill voice, singing, 'Would that _I_ were beautiful, would that _I_ were fair!'” There was a hearty chorus of laughter at poor Miss Ringtop's expense.

Abel Mallory was there, and Hollins, and Miss Ringtop, and Faith Levis, with her knitting,--and also Eunice Hazleton, a lady whom you have never seen, but you may take my wife at her representative--” “Stick to the programme, Enos,” interrupted Mrs.

Now, here's a chance to try the experiment for a few months, anyhow.' “Eunice clapped her hands (yes, you did!) and cried out-- “'Splendid! Arcadian! I'll give up my school for the summer.' “Miss Ringtop gave her opinion in another quotation: “'The rainbow hues of the Ideal Condense to gems, and form the Real!' “Abel Mallory, of course, did not need to have the proposal repeated.

Some three or four others were in the same case, and the company was finally arranged to consist of the Shelldrakes, Hollins, Mallory, Eunice, Miss Ringtop, and myself.

Miss Ringtop, who, with Eunice, Mallory, and myself, occupied one carriage, expressed her 'gushing' feelings in the usual manner: “'Where the turf is softest, greenest, Doth an angel thrust me on,-- Where the landscape lies serenest, In the journey of the sun!' “'Don't, Pauline!' said Eunice; 'I never like to hear poetry flourished in the face of Nature.