How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped is a 1912 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Rhythm in September 1912 under the penname of Lili Heron.
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Famous quotes containing the words pearl, button and/or kidnapped:
“For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world they do shine,
For the next trim beauty beginneth to swerve,
For the next matrons or drudges they serve,
For the next doth crave a staff for a stay,
For the next a bier to fetch them away.”
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