Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hours later I had strolled down to the pier, and was watching the little yachts and row-boats gayly starting out with their loads of fishing and picnic parties, when father and daughter came walking down from the hotel together. Mr. Carlin passed me with the barest recognition, but Bertha withdrew her arm from his and stopped short to speak with me. He made no remark but addressed himself to the old skipper of the Rosa, a dainty little yacht, some twenty-four feet or so from stem to stern, and asked him if his boat were yet engaged...
...other young men, inclined to enjoy the society of the ladies. There were some threescore people, young and old, at the hotel, - in general, a very pleasant company. I had been there but a few days before I became more than ordinarily interested in two of the guests, a father and daughter. You may think it was wholly the latter; but I can assure you that Mr. Carlin was an extraordinary man. His personal appearance everywhere attracted attention. He was tall and well formed, a young man in physique and bearing; but his hair and beard were almost snow-white...
...disappearing up the stairs, her father came out of the office, and, without appearing to notice me, followed after. I confess I was somewhat taken aback: the office windows opened on the front balcony, and it was not improbable that he might have witnessed the some what startling finale to the evening's comedy. However, it could not be helped. As to his favor or disfavor, he was always a moody, eccentric sort of man, and I had no reason to think that he had ever liked me better than I had liked...
...door was opened by one of those giddy girls, and I began : "Daughter of the fairest race of women on this continent, do I judge aright, after the conglomerate circumlocutions of this morning, that before me stands the maiden who will bid me rest my weary limbs in her father's palatial halls?" She replied with a disdainful glance : "Oh! I know yez, yez be one of them air students from Cambridgeport;" and turning to her nice little pet dog, she said, "Seize him, Roger." I started for the street. He seized. The remnants of my trousers I wore home...
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