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...silence was broken by the appearance of a small row-boat containing two people. One was a young man dressed in a comfortable-looking yachting costume, very much browned, however, by exposure to a New Hampshire sun; the other was a young woman dressed in much the same manner, except so far as the distinguishing marks of female attire went, with a very jaunty and coquettish hat set atop of a cluster of very bewitching brown curls. He was rowing rather leisurely toward the little white beach - if such it may be called - that bordered the inlet whither they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...burnished waters in the sun, the tufted crags and narrowing inlets, the long stretches of forest, and finally, like a sheltering rim, the purple hills. Yes, this was decidedly pleasant - to me especially - who was the young man in question, for it was in the charming village of Centre Harbor that I found myself during the vacation which followed my Junior year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...could not remain entirely miserable under this trouble; indeed, if I could have had some confidant it might have been easier to bear. But I was a young man, and not naturally a despondent one; and therefore I regained to some extent my usual good spirits before the summer had passed. And perhaps the companionship of Miss Edith Austen had helped solace me. She was truly a very charming girl, - her glass and her friends told her so, - and I think she fully believed it; she had her little vanities, which she carefully concealed from the public gaze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...eyes of man but to disclose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENING REST. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...Acta Columbiana publishes a very sharp and pithy "condensed novel" by Smintheus, which is an apt retort to Yale arrogance and a witty satire upon malarial Princeton. The dark De Briggs, a rival of Fitz Clarence, in order to be revenged upon the young man, sends him a catalogue of Princeton College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »