Word: talked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...object to; and, as a last argument for the continuance of these "exercises," they form an agreeable interlude between the dancing in the afternoon and the teas in the evening, allowing our guests an opportunity for rest, and ourselves a chance to lay in a new stock of small talk for the evening...
...little sentimental talk...
...uncle's. It was cold and bleak; but I had quite a jolly time, because, you see, I've got a lot of cousins who live there, and I was the only male approaching their age for ten miles. Yes, I had a beautiful time. I used to talk philosophy to nineteen, and nonsense to twelve, and romance to sixteen; you see they acted as foils to each other, and when I was a little tired of one I would fall back on another, and then there were always my uncle and aunt as a last resource...
...life of an instructor in those days was by no means an easy one. Private tutors were often tossed in blankets, and the lecturers were frequently annoyed by the students singing worn-out songs, - the "Sallies" and "Bull-Dogs" of the time, - or by the talk about the latest dancer at the circus. "You forget all about Demosthenes," says an irate lecturer to his class, "and go on with your songs, which you know by heart already...
...along. Read enough, and all will come as it came to you in English, without labor. But to accomplish this, do not hesitate in the beginning to read simple books, - Perrault's Contes de Fees, for instance, or Laboulaye's Contes bleus; in fact, books that contain just such talk as gave you the English vocabulary you now have...