Word: day
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...election the other day I voted the Ben Butler ticket, as almost everybody did, it seems. I'm glad he's elected. He's old for President, I know, but then...
...Saturday night Miss Neilson took her farewell benefit, and a large audience testified their admiration for the most beautiful and accomplished actress that has appeared on those boards for many a day. We decline to regard it as possible that Miss Neilson will not come to us again next year...
...ownership, he appropriated my books without asking leave, and if in consequence of this appropriation I "deaded" or "fizzled," he expressed the liveliest sympathy for my mishap, and would offer the consoling advice that I ought to study harder. There was something strange about the fact that the day after I received a check he would invariably want to borrow a little money...
...blandly would he sometimes come into my room, take off his rubbers and overcoat, and pleasantly inform me that he had no more recitations for that day! I knew what this meant, - a straight loaf till tea, and a steady drain on my cherished tobacco. He made fair promises of buying the next, but the next for him never came...
Being under the necessity of purchasing some coal one day, I chanced to ask him, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in my voice, how much coal he had used this winter. He replied, "I have only about half a ton left." Some time after I happened to see one of those little bills with which we are all more or less acquainted; from this I learned that he was indebted to a coal-merchant for just the above-mentioned amount, purchased at the beginning of the year. I then fully understood the import of his answer. He evinced...