Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon her with horror not unmingled with amazement. They did not understand her vagaries; they did not know that American society is provincial...
...very curious about the United States, particularly Boston, Cambridgeport, - where Harvard College is situated, - and Bangor. He one day asked our heroine if the Boston Poncas had not yet been removed to any reservation, and if Carl Schurz were not the governor of Massachusetts. He wanted to know if Roscoe Conkling had not been elected President, and if the Concord poet were not to be Secretary of State. Tommie did not laugh at these questions: she saw too deeply into the spiritualities of things. She felt that he was intense, and she rather liked him for it. To Lord London...
...thought of being plucked, you know...
...those who yearn to know...
...DULLSTON SLOEMAN ("never went in for that sort of thing, you know"). - "I see how one can find out how large and how far away the stars are, but, by Jove! I don't quite see how they ever found out their names...