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...felt myself helpless as a dead man. I seemed to be in another world; that familiar college room was strange and unreal. A wonderful enchantment possessed me. I looked at the clock: the hands were moving irregularly backward and forward, though it had stopped ticking. There was an escritoire in one corner of the room, and the cover of this fell down with a loud bang. Inside was a man's skull. The pictures seemed to move in their frames. I could see the figure of a dog run madly back and forth; the horses in "Aurora" were galloping furiously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...hollow, resounding strokes, every one of which increased my nervous expectation. I felt that I must do something; I took up my hat and coat, and was about to start off myself in search of Steve, when I heard a brisk, firm step on the stair, and the missing man himself entered. He came in radiant and glowing with exercise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...began to think that - that you were never coming." One man hates to confess to another that he has been anxious about him; especially when that other comes back in a cheerful mood which is almost exasperating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...took a run up Arlington way. I did not suspect how late it was. There, I feel like a new man...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

Thou hast a woman's heart - a man withal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO S. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »