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...Passant." - "What are you always thinking about, Ida?" "I'm always thinking about nothing, auntie. I never think about any thing, unless I happen to think of some thing to think about." - [London Punch...
...manners are exquisite, though. I suppose that comes from meeting so many students. Of course you're dying to hear about the students. Well, they're perfectly horrid. They stare at one dreadfully. Of course I don't mind a slight glance of admiration, un coup d'oeil en passant, but a continued stare, though flattering, is very rude indeed. I met some very, very nice college men at a german, though, - they were extremely dignified. Some of them told me all about how they spend their time, and I think Harvard life must be perfectly delightful. One very pale...
Nous pousse le coude en passant...
Occasion was taken, en passant, to revile that serviceable sheet, the Boston Herald. I have no wish to join issue upon every particular statement of the article in question, but it strikes me that in this case, as in the other, injustice is done to a popular favorite. As a news-teller the Herald is unequalled in Boston, and certain editorials occur to me that would do credit to any paper. I might refer to one entitled "An Oriental Lesson," in a Sunday Herald of recent date. Its stand on the currency question is certainly of the soundest...