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...pledged to be my wife! Words ill express...
...members of the K. N. Society left last year some twenty dollars to the members of '83, with the express condition that they are to use it as a contribution to a fund for getting a room for the Society. Some of the '82 men proposed to have a supper from the money left over in the treasury. The majority ruled that money left over thus does not belong to the individual members, but to the Society as such. For this reason it left the money to '83, with the condition above. This year, however, the Society did have...
...have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...
...less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some even actually pulled my long plait of hair, - evidently a very high compliment. For the Americans express good-will by touching one another. When pleased with themselves they rub their own hands; when pleased with others, they...
...died at thirty-six years of age, and that this work was only op. 9. It is essentially poetical and even dramatic in the intensity of emotion, keenly imaginative and wrought out in orchestration that is worthy of Wagner or Berlioz. Indeed, its intensity is perhaps too great to express its motto...