Word: lined
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...next day I went in, dressed in calling costume, - black coat, &c., - and was met by a chorus of disapprobation. "How ungraceful these modern garments are! Why did n't you wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping...
...soul in my eyes, repeating mentally all of Romeo and Juliet that I knew. (See English 2 mid-year.) The young lady seemed rather disconcerted; but I had a good look at her, - never had so good an opportunity before. I had, in my quotations, arrived at the line "Oh, swear not by the moon," &c., and was wondering whether the moon would hold out so that I could go skating some evening. Just then, a lady asked me to put a little more expression into my mouth, and that ended the sentimentalism...
...usual line...