Word: breach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remarked, "No, you don't "(for she certainly did not), and, throwing down my rod and basket, seated myself on the grass at her feet. After a rather painful silence of a few moments, during which she scanned my face with a somewhat naive curiosity, I rushed into the breach in the conversation with, "Are you at Wellesley College?" "Yes, I am," said she. "Guess you're a Harvard boy." I confessed to this accusation; but as I never carry an obtrusive crimson handkerchief, and do not dislocate my elbows in walking, I don't see how she knew. "Been...