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...quickly. A strong feeling of regard for the child had grown up within me; perhaps it was because I had never known what it was to have a younger sister. We were firm friends; indeed, I think she lavished upon me that sort of love which a boy may sometimes feel for a woman many years his senior. I knew I should miss her greatly. . . . But when I saw her in the doorway smiling at me, her pale face struck me with something like terror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...come, and see what the poor boy will do. But oh!" in excitement, "O Loe! here comes Ching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...corridors too. My celluloid collar was limp as a wet rag. The elevator, as usual, was "not running." The gas machine had given out, and the pale beams of the odoriferous kerosene lighted my lagging steps as I climbed the five flights. Claret lemonade was forthwith ordered; the boy left me alone with my straws, and I reflected over my first German. I had been playing tennis all the morning, and reading back volumes of the Lampoon to some young ladies on the piazza all the afternoon, - no wonder I had made so many blunders in the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER THE GERMAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

...sarmon or two jist boy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR PROFESSOR CHILD'S COLLECTION. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

Which was wrote boy the Shakspere shillaly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR PROFESSOR CHILD'S COLLECTION. | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

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