Word: jest
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...face brightened visibly, for he discovered my meaning at once. 'Jest ez soon 'z I git a leetle snack o' vittles...
...knew I could n't, so I replied nothing, and she went on. "S'pose you can read French, or think you can. I like that too. Got a French book here that's jest lovely." "Let me see it," said I, hopefully. It was the "Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau"! I had had enough; I said I had an engagement to dinner, and left, while she called after me, "Come round again some afternoon, - I'm' most always here fine days, - and we might have a row on the lake." I accepted the invitation" with pleasure," and departed from...