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...summer which we spent together at Mt. Desert. You were a Freshman then. How long ago it seems, and how nice it will be to find you almost a Senior! Perhaps you are changed, too. Indeed, I am not sure that I should know you, for, what do you think? I had the misfortune to bow to a gentleman in the street, thinking it was you, and he came up and spoke to me, and I did n't find out my mistake until I had talked with him some time. He proved to be a classmate of yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTIMENT. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...made all the trouble. I spent all the morning yesterday trying to think what man in the class looked so much like me. I thought of that handsome Beck, but he certainly don't look like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTIMENT. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...think we resemble each other, Browser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTIMENT. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...That was worse yet. I could stand being taken for Browser, but to think of Lillie's flirting with such a wretch, - it was too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTIMENT. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...that any one became popular by such policy as this. In fact, I meant to imply the contrary, and I am well aware that the most unpopular men in college are those who have so far mistaken the elements of popularity as to think that toadying is one of them. I did not, however, imply that any Harvard graduate was an imbecile. I merely drew a picture of Gosling, and if anybody insists that it is the picture of an imbecile I am not responsible for that opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IS GOSLING A PHENOMENON? | 5/16/1879 | See Source »