..We shall get on famously...and be capital friends forever.
Thomas Bailey AldrichWhenever a new scholar came to out school, I used to confront him at recess with the following words: 'My name's Tom Bailey: what's your name?' If the name struck me favorably, I shook hands with the new pupil cordially; but if it didn't I would turn on my heel, for I was particular in this point. Such names as Higgins, Wiggins, and Spriggins were deadly afronts to my ear; while Lapgdon, Wallace, Blake, and the like, were passing words to my confidence and esteem.
Thomas Bailey AldrichI hope he and she that was Miss Wang Wang are very happy together, sitting cross-legged over dimenitive cups of tea in a sky-blue tower hung with bells.
Thomas Bailey AldrichWe visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.
Thomas Bailey AldrichIt is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
Thomas Bailey AldrichWhat a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody else, and everybody doing everything wrong!
Thomas Bailey Aldrich..Fell over the prostrate steersman, and there we all lay in a heep, two or three of us quite picturesque with the nosebleed.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich...Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.
Thomas Bailey AldrichThen the ship gave sudden lurches that made it a matter of uncertainty whether one was going to put his fork in his mouth or into his eye.
Thomas Bailey AldrichSo I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
Thomas Bailey AldrichTags: south new-orleans
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