Word: ladye
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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I was anticipating the relish of this happiness before I left my old lodgings, and was realizing it as I went down to dinner with my cousin. But we were no sooner seated than I observed that although this lady was on my right hand, my friend's oldest boy...
Nicholas's voice is a rare one, full, rich, and uncultivated, yet very sweet withal. I remember that often, crossing the Public Garden, and hearing the familiar voice singing, under a Beacon Hill window, I have had the bad taste to sit down upon one of the benches to listen...
"If there is one thing more than another which I despise in a woman it is flirting. In a man it is more pardonable, for there is no illusion hanging around him to be spoiled by the vulgar reality of flirting ; . . . . he is just the kind of being you would...
To proceed to the story, this interesting young man goes out "buggy-riding" with a young lady who is described as an incorrigible flirt, but who is really in love with her companion. Why, with his insufferable conceit, he is not aware of this fact, we are not told; at...
"Yes," continued the young lady, "several gentlemen in '77 informed me that they did not consider the ordinary degree difficult enough, and so intended to spend another year in studying for something higher."