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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Look more pleasant? Nay, I cannot...
...mornings after, Professor Packard called on C. to ask something about a library book. After he had done his errand, the old gentleman walked up to the window, and began to examine the fruit. 'Very fine pears,' he said, 'it is a variety rare about here, too.' 'They look first rate,' Doc. answered, 'though I've not tasted them yet.' 'You'll find them very good, I assure you,' Father Packard observed blandly, as he moved toward the door. 'Very good indeed. I took great pains with that graft! Good-day.' And poor C. never had a chance to explain...
...stumbled over what appeared to be a sleeping poco. On bringing a light a dreadful sight presented itself to his view. Two ghastly corpses, their clothing torn and bloody, their gaping wounds filled with matted blood and dust, lay at fearful length on the floor of the cellar. One look was enough. With the cry of murder on his lips, with blanching cheeks, in wild-eyed terror, the man of many duties fled the loathsome sight. With the utmost difficulty he was quieted sufficiently to give a coherent account of what he had seen. Finally, accompanied by our special reporter...
...railway-carriage. We travelled third class, for, as he said, poetry was flat, and there was very little profit in the business. There was a plethoric Irish female in the apartment with a crying infant in her arms. I saw that Tennyson's countenance had a rapt, far-away look, so I said pleasantly, "Composing, eh? Sonnet on a weeping infant, - ah! very tender, very touching! Can't I give you a hint...
...sincerity. With Carlyle was carried to the grave the patriarch of a new age, - an age of activity, not of morbid self-consciousness; of sincerity, not of ceremony. He renounced the faith which only babbles after what another said, which repeats without reflection; he first taught men to look into the great Book for themselves, and see whether there be any voice in nature to justify faith. The result was that Carlyle's faith was as firm as a rock, as any faith must needs be which comes not from authority, but from conviction...