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...graceless wretch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...wretch drags in a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...damp cigarette to take refuge in smoke and philosophy; but "matches are made in Heaven," and I was no farther than purgatory, so I did not smoke just then. On the road I found a small snub-nosed boy with his basket full of fine trout. The little wretch had fished the brook just a hundred yards ahead of me. I descended to base flattery, and attempted corruption. Noble Young America (of course his name was Bill) declined to barter his fame and his fish for gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PISCATORIAL. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...wretch told you that I flirted with him, did he? and you prefer to believe him rather than me? and you are conceited enough to think that you were always as fine looking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTIMENT. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...asked a hopeful young friend who feels sure of getting into college, this his fourth time; this was in the new Gymnasium on Class Day. "Some five thousand times," I replied impressively, rushing off to Miss -- of Albany (Albany's population is, surely, chiefly pretty young ladies). The young wretch, after gorging himself with all the salads, rushed at me as I returned pensively from the Alban charms with the comprehensive interrogation, "How?" But I can't spend from now even until after the bed-hour of Beck, '79, explaining the manifold forms of Freshman folly. No, I will write...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMANIA. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

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