<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463587" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Eccentric</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be virtuous and you will be eccentric-Mark Twain</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Yes, she was a countess, she said, <br>but being of a mind concise and thrifty<br>added 'that, and a dollar fifty<br>will get you on the subway-'<br>A long time ago, surely.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She rode to harriers<br>not like ladies did, side-saddle, <br>she said, but properly astraddle, <br>following the yelping, fanned-out pack<br>over the hills and back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Later she studied at Trinity<br>getting a 'dispensation'<br>becoming a gynecologist-obstetrician.<br>'Leave from the crown'? I frowned, expectantly, <br>'No, from the bishop', she replied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But she never practiced-<br>first there was the war; later the AMA<br>back home, dealt her the no-way.<br>And if you didn't ask her she would plainly say<br>'So I spent my life in marine-salvage.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she did. Comfortable with card-readers, <br>superstitious as practical, <br>once at dinner she told me she'd seen Michael<br>the Archangel behind a church choir stall. I just kept eating.<br>What he was doing there I didn't ask.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Morgan+Michaels">Morgan Michaels</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463587" data-title="An Eccentric de Morgan Michaels" data-description="Be virtuous and you will be eccentric-Mark Twain Yes, she was a countess, she said, but being of a mind concise and thrifty added 'that, and a dollar fifty will get you on the subway-' A long time ago, surely. She rode to harriers not like lad..."></div> </div> </div>

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