Word: paid
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have all known them, even those of us who are of methodical habits and ever-ready purse. We know their step on the stair, their heavy tread along the entry, their ominous knock at the door, their bland departure if met with refusal, their look of astonishment if paid...
...green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word in regard to his "memorandum." When, at a thoughtless moment, I paid him, he seemed surprised at the fact, and mournful that he was deprived of further pretext for visiting...