..We shall get on famously...and be capital friends forever.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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Whenever 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 Aldrich


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I 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 Aldrich


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We 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 Aldrich


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It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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What a Babel of voices it was, everybody directing everybody else, and everybody doing everything wrong!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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..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


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...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 Aldrich


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Then 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 Aldrich


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So 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 Aldrich

Mots clés south new-orleans



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