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...amazing to read the names of the young "Lieuts., U. S. N.," who visited the library in the "forties." Business in their line seems to have been slack during the "calm" before the war. On June 19, 1843, in a faltering but plain hand, Robert Andrews of Bridgton, Me., 91 years old, records, "I was at the battle of Bunker Hill." On the same page John Tyler, Sr., Washington, has written his name with a firmness of hand and an amount of ink that insures it preservation "till the coming of time." With the same plainness of writing...
Before our reporter could finish, the "Idyllic" calmly rose, and with a voice calm enough to draw tears to the eye of a needle, said, "Lad, I did not thing that you came here to injure my sensitive feelings...
There was another pair of blue eyes in that seat. They belonged to a calm-looking, middle-aged lady, apparently the mother of the fair one; but, with a most commendable matronly circumspection, she seemed to be quite absorbed in the passing landscape, and I was willing to have...
Thus the two lovers were happy, and the philosopher, smiling a calm benediction, was happy also; the villains were foiled, and everything was as it should...
Disengaging her hand from his throat, Bob assured her in as calm a tone as he could command under the trying circumstances, that he was not "her own," and he also would be greatly obliged to her if she would not "have him once more" again. After hesitating a moment, she evidently concluded not to, and resumed her seat...