Word: peccant
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Chiefest and best known among his peccant intimates of those stormy days was the lady known as "Claire", a Highland lass, actually named Kate Drummond, "slim and dark, very trim and neat, with jet-black hair." She was one of the class aptly known as "unfortunates", but Stevenson's affection for her appears rot to have been wholly sensual. Rather she filled a gap for him. He was a lonely youth, with few intimates other than his drunken cronies. She stands out significantly among all his later amours?reputable and otherwise. And Stevenson was ever the lover, his hot eager...
...keep interest up, and expenses down, and the Union has been by no means a failure as a meeting place for large numbers of students. If it has lacked patronage and morale, the officers are not to be blamed. But it is obvious that there is something extremely peccant in the state of the Union...