A delicate compliment - Lady: "Would you recommend Day & Martin's Blacking?" Shopwoman: "Certainly, madam. Nothing is so pleasing to the eye. You have only to look at your boot and you will always see your face in it."
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

A delicate compliment - Lady: "Would you recommend Day & Martin's Blacking?" Shopwoman: "Certainly, madam. Nothing is so pleasing to the eye. You have only to look at your boot and you will always see your face in it."

[ca. 1870–1900]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
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