Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...workers; in this kind, it is a man's own fault if he doesn't do himself justice, unless he is abnormally nervous. In the other sort, the kind regard for the f. f. m. is not so apparent. The gentlemen who are present but not writing, wander about and give you the annoying impression that they are reading over your shoulder; or they rattle newspapers; or some one comes in and tells one of them a story in plain hearing,-a good story maybe, but not appropriate to the paper; or one of them picks up a blue book...