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...seeks my blood, I know not why." Then...
...came to know her better, I found a peculiar charm in her which I never saw in other women, whom contact with the social world makes selfish. Here was a woman who, during the twenty years of her life, had met with no more than a score of human beings. Yet she possessed the germ of those pure inborn gifts which cultivation can mock, but never equal. She could analyze the beauty of forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers...
...What is the end of charitable sewing-circles ? That all the members may know what one knows, and what no one ought to know...
These girls think that I know everything; they call me "Mr. Tournville" when I am present, but when I am absent, "Frank." I like to watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course...
...skin. The author - Richard Grant Black is his name - makes one or two unimportant mistakes with regard to the few original slang words in use here. Snab for girls, he tells us, is a Harvard word. He may be right, but I think very few undergraduates at present would know what it meant, and it is not to be found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general...