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...angry with myself," said Yung, "because I did not ask your name; and yet I wondered that I had so far overcome my natural diffidence as to confess my love. But all my diffidence seems to leave me when...
...easy-chair - the only chair which I never offer to a stranger - with a mingled sensation of relief and anxiety. To be sure, I had looked over a large number of stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised...
...first attempt was a failure: the servant said he was taking a nap and could not be disturbed on any account. The second time, however, I was more fortunate: he was in, and I was ushered into his presence, feeling somewhat shaky about the knees, I must confess. He proved to be a fine-looking, gray-haired man of about sixty, I should judge, who soon set me quite at my ease by talking English to me, and very good English too. I learned from him that all I had to do was to prove myself a foreigner, which...
...concerned in an undertaking which boldly appropriates the name of our College for its titlepage. But we can hardly congratulate Mr. Hudson on his good judgment in thus attempting to connect himself or his writings with an institution that has never yet taken the slightest notice of him. We confess it had occurred to us that there was only one man who could properly edit a "Harvard" Shakspere, and that man was our own Professor Child; it had also occurred to us that there were other books than those prepared by Mr. Hudson on our shelves...
...students in Harvard College to whom New England thought is almost utterly foreign. The University is, of course, more or less cosmopolitan, and the Westerner tramples consecrated soil for perhaps a year and a half before he takes cognizance of the original thinkers whom it has nourished. I confess to a feeling of exasperation when one of these untutored minds propounds a view of life, or gives an estimate of character, without recognizing in any way the verdict of New England cultivation. Yet, although his lack of deference to authority is certainly due, in part, to ignorance, we must nevertheless...