Mary Augusta Ward Quote

Her audience looked on at first with the embarrassed or hostile air which is the Englishman's natural protection against the great things of art...


The Marriage of William Ashe (1905)


Her audience looked on at first with the embarrassed or hostile air which is the Englishman's natural protection against the great things of art...

Her audience looked on at first with the embarrassed or hostile air which is the Englishman's natural protection against the great things of art...

Her audience looked on at first with the embarrassed or hostile air which is the Englishman's natural protection against the great things of art...

Her audience looked on at first with the embarrassed or hostile air which is the Englishman's natural protection against the great things of art...