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...crown into the box at the door. Friday. Come back in the fly. N. B. You are to keep and exact account of your charges." The energy with which these short sentences succeed one another show how much Boswell was moved. And yet, he did not quite lose his head. "Study the mother," he says impressively, and "Keep an exact account of your charges...
...wounded affections were soon healed, and shortly, he writes that: "I am indeed glad to be rid of her," and proceeds to renew a correspondence he had formerly held with a "charming Dutch woman." This affection, and still another, he quickly wearies of, and then he falls head over ears in love with a young girl whom he calls "la belle Irlandaise." "I am exceedingly lucky," he exclaims joyfully, "to have escaped the insensible Miss B. for now I have seen the finest creature that ever was formed, la belle Irlandaise. Figure to yourself a young lady just sixteen, formed...
...letters, unfortunately, do not begin until he is twenty, so that we are precluded from any view of his real life until that time; but after that age, we can trace, with a good deal of accuracy, the course of his thoughts. In the very first letter we plunge head-long into an account of one of his many attachments. It does not describe one of the important affairs, but it is so characteristically told that I quote the letter in part: "As I have given you fair warning," he says "don't be surprised if your grave, sedate, philosophic...
...graduate comes home, and the question immediately arises-how is he to assume his proper place at the head of his family; or if his conscience is weaker than his indolence, how is he even to vindicate his own absolute independence of parental influence...
Third bout, W. H. Paine, L. S., and Clement. Paine led off by planting his left on Clement's body, and the latter returned by landing several blows on Paine's head and driving him on to the settees. Paine then rallied and put in some stinging blows on Clement's head and body. In the second round Paine went in for business, and his superior weight began to tell. He did effective work with his left, but many of his blows were dodged and countered by Clement. The third round made it plain that although Clement was more scientific...