Word: yes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heard papa read out of the paper last night (of course you know I never read newspapers; mamma says very few English girls do) - now what was I writing about? Oh, yes. I heard papa read that Oscar Wilde had arrived. Now whatever do they make all this fuss of him for? I don't care one speck about seeing him, but I know some of the girls are just crazy to. I've seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened...
...that a man? No! that is not a man, that is an aesthete. What has he in his hand? He has a lily in his hand. Will the lily die? Yes, the lily will. Poor lily! Why does he look so wild at the horse-car? Of course he looks wild at the horse-car, for he is Oscar Wilde. - [News Primer...
...yes; it is a glad face...
...Yes; I see you re-mem-ber your les-sons...
...Yes; that is right; now tell me in one word about all tu-tors...