Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...surroundings very different from tone of your home. You will hear things said and see things done, which you have always been taught to regard-with holy horror. For example, I will speak of drunkenness. I am familiar enough with the views of your mother and of your great-aunt Lucretia upon this matter to know that you, who have passed a good portion of your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed to the influence of liquor deserved to be excluded from the society of civilized...