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This had the desired effect, and he was soon ushered into the apartments of the lover of the beautiful. As he entered he was greeted by a "Ha! ha!" a strange sound that seemed like the smile of a tombstone. Seated before the fireplace he saw a tall, lean man of about twenty-six years. He wore a large Grosvenor of an ultramarine color, with a love of a sunflower embroidered on it; his morning coat was of purple corduroy, with the collar and cuffs adorned with pansies. In his hand he held a lily which ever and anon...
...Ha! Ha! too fleshly, not sufficiently early English; but yet methinks it has been told that young men of Harvard are hopeful subjects, who may be etherealized and yet saved...
...Ha! ha! yes, I grasp your conception, but then 'tis said that their aestheticism is purely pastoral...
...known by any other title? Yes-ah, he-ah is sometimes called a cultuahed gentleman-ah. Does he study Greek? I should-ah say that he did-ah. He pwayed in Oedipus-ah lawst yeah. What did he play? He pwayed the curtains up awnd down-ah. Joke ah! Ha-ha-ah? What makes him part his hair in the middle? Only a step-ah in the cawse of his development-ah. Development into what? Into womanhood-ah. Another joke ah, be Jove-ah. By-the-way, what does he think of Emerson's idea of the non-combustibility...
...Ha, did you notice it?" I cried. "Nothing ails me but - but THAT." I looked him steadily in the face; I saw him quail...