Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Eager I looked - but vainly, for
I was n't such a cynic or recluse when I entered college; on the contrary, I was full of love and sympathy for my fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's...
For a week all went well. I began to think the world less hollow than I had supposed, and my visions of the monastery began to fade. Suddenly one evening, a "sound of revelry by night" came stealing into my room from the Heart Club, (where they preserve the diamonds...
The next Monday I was waked up (8.30 A. M.) by the lively reunion of two cats, as I supposed, but it turned out to be only the exultant crowing of cocks, trying some new and wholly original combinations of sounds. They were a success, I fancy, for I retired...
I went home from dinner one evening contented with myself and at peace with all mankind - except Bartlett, Sever, and my washerwoman. I lit my pipe, took up the last Crimson, and prepared for a quiet evening when the suffering melodeon claimed and got as usual my undivided attention. The...