Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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" 'How you have changed, Tom!' she said. 'You are so much taller and stouter, and such a delicious waltzer. You are not at all like the gentleman whom I mistook for you in the street.'
" 'When you want to flirt, Lillie, pick out a handsome man, and then you won't have any difficulty in making a friend believe that you mistook the stranger for him.'
"Oh, Tom! how you did let that little girl humbug you, to be sure," said I. "I'll warrant that you asked her pardon for suspecting her of flirting."
HE was a mild, inoffensive-looking person of about twenty-six summers, attired in a neat blue suit, and at the first glance would have been taken for one of those harmless young men of gentlemanly pursuits, and no visible means of support, whom one so often notices in our...
"Ah, then perhaps you can tell me something about the life at Harvard. Do the fellows drink, smoke, play cards for money, and bet, as at Yale?"