Word: tells
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR IN HISTORY. The prefect was at first a general, and afterwards exercised his office in a general sort of way. Now, Mr. - , can you tell me what were the duties of the prefect...
Alas! how piteously doth tell...
...dark musings tell...
...lovely or no? I cannot tell...
...enough to trouble her to-day. Why worry about to-day? It won't last long, and it will be to-morrow ever so soon. She is something of a philosopher too, - a manly failing which few women have, - and if you venture to moralize on life she will tell you it is soon over and too short to waste in building up theories. If you are rash enough to talk about the world, she will say it is a very queer one, and few people get out of it alive. If you talk philosophically, she will call it nonsense...