Word: mes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Essay read before the Quizzical Club by J-mes...
...mes's manuscript comes to an end at this interesting point. We are not sure whether he has finished the story or not. If further instalments are received, they will be published...
...walk about in order to keep warm. Doctor B-rt-l's "serene, saint-like face" was all aglow from the effects of a walk in the wind; whereas the muscular Christianity of Ph-ll-ps Br-ks was merely gently stimulated by the chilly atmosphere. Mr. J-mes T. F-lds had quite forgotten to follow T-nnys-n about and ask, "How do you feel now?" but stood shivering over a melancholy register, - not that of M-ses. Algernon Charles Sw-nb-rne and G-rge Fr-ncis Tr-in chatted merrily away, kept warm, perhaps, by their...
...Alson Broncott called the meeting to order in a felicitous speech, and then asked Mr. F-lds to pass the hat. A general outcry of consternation followed. Mr. J-mes G-rd-n Benn-tt said that it was a dead give-away, and that the Irish were in need of funds to help carry on the glorious work of exterminating, "bloated bond-holders," and that he (Mr. B.) could feel for the poor; Mr. Gl-dst-ne declared that Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called...