Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...father's name used to be Thomas O'Donohue. I don't know what it is now. He is a man of leisure, and at present boards at the granite building near the Medical School. My mother's name was Bridget before her marriage, and is still, I think. They were married...
...early showed a great taste for the literature of the past, and longed to fit for college. Neither my father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society...
...COLLEGE student, in rendering to his father an account of his term expenses, inserted, "To charity, thirty dollars." His father wrote back: "I fear charity covers a multitude of sins...
...father, a Duke, is old and unwell...
...took up with a Father Confessor...