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Quotation from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“But I was born a lady, and have always lived one; no matter in what narrowness of means, always a lady.”
The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter III, The First Customer (Project Gutenberg #77)
Holgrave congratulates Hepzibah on joining the working world; she answers with offended dignity.
Citation: "But I was born a lady, and have always lived one; no matter in what narrowness of means, always a lady." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter III, The First Customer (Project Gutenberg #77). (id the-house-of-the-seven-gables-q4)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
