Mary Gray
By Katherine Tynan
15 Jul, 2020
Brief Extract: The house where Mary Gray was born and grew towards womanhood was one of a squat line of mean little houses that hid behind a great church. The roadway in front of the houses led only to the back entrance of the church. Over against th
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Brief Extract: The house where Mary Gray was born and grew towards womanhood was one of a squat line of mean little houses that hid behind a great church. The roadway in front of the houses led only to the back entrance of the church. Over against the windows was the playground of the church schools, surrounded by a high wall that shut away field and sky from the front rooms of Wistaria Terrace.
The houses were drab and ugly, with untidy grass-plots in front. They presented an exterior of three windows and a narrow round-topped hall-door which was a confession of poverty in itself. Five out of six houses had a ramping plaster horse in the fanlight of the hall door, a fixture that went with the house and was immune from breakage because no one ever thought of cleaning the fanlights. Less