Word: stay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Edmund and I had arranged to climb Red Hill together some time during his stay. It was a pleasant tramp, - some ten miles to the summit and back, - and the beautiful September weather made him very anxious to attempt it. I was less eager, for obvious reasons. We started off in the afternoon. Edith came to the doorway just as we took the road. We looked back, and she waved her hand at us. It was the last time - except once...
...Perhaps; but not to stay so long. We should go to Bethlehem or North Conway, for a change...
Fancy our president posting a notice, as the president of Wooster University did, that "Hereafter no female student will be allowed to receive more than one visitor per week, and he must not stay later than nine o'clock." We respect our president and revere good laws, but we are mortal...
Tootsy's visit, however, had not been without its consequences. During the first part of her stay she had made the acquaintance of a minor of '84, and a very charming young man, - if he was a trifle fresh...
...railway carriage; that he wore three clean shirts a week, but never changed his stockings oftener than once a fortnight; that he was a poet; that Queen Victoria had made him England's laureate; that he did not like to shave himself; that, however late he might stay out at night, he was always able to use the latch-key; that he wrote Maud; and that he was very fond of baked beans. I thanked Mrs. T. for this valuable information, which I immediately jotted down in my notebook...