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...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. I was very willing to join in the universal verdict...
...stunner. (I looked at the volumes; they were uncut, and Othello was standing on his head; I sympathetically put him on his feet) "And this set of Marryat's works looks very well on the shelves." (The books certainly did encumber enough space for Thackeray and Jane Austen's works and looked as if they at least had been read.) And so he went on. He had already "ragged" a sign, bearing the inscription "Harvard Laundry," which brilliant witticism he intended to hang over his mantel...