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interminably.
supplant
“Indeed, bed does not offer me the same inducements as of yore and I rather regret when the time comes for me to retire alone.”
onus
antithesis
She remained immutably herself.
To be going abroad was not the rare thing it once had been. Americans were crisscrossing the Atlantic, resolutely “doing” Europe’s galleries and monuments, hiking the Alps, taking the waters in a dozen different spas, filling the best hotels, in numbers that would have been unheard of before the war. So near and commonplace had Europe become, announced the popular travel writer Bayard Taylor, that he would write no more on the subject. It was the year of The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain’s often jeering declaration that a touch of Old World culture was neither beyond the ken of the ordinary
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vapor
Begum
Hogarth’s Marriage à la Mode.
“A course of travel of this sort,” an English physician had written, “ . . . in a pure and bracing air, under a bright sky, amid some of the most attractive and most impressive scenes in nature, in cheerful company . . . will do all that the best medicines can do . . . and much that they never can accomplish.” Henry James, trudging over the Swiss Alps that same summer, described his exertions as “a pledge, a token of some future potency.”
paroxysm
“Organs are made for action, not existence; they are made to work, not to be; and when they work well they can be well,”
Emetics
squills,”
“periodicity”
“colporteur,”
calumny.
moiety
“pleasant doors in Boston, and round about in Milton, Brookline, and Chestnut Hill, stood open” to a world of “gentle-folk” who were truly hospitable—“not mere entertainers”—who could talk of books and horses and winters in Rome. It made all the difference, he thought, in how one benefited from
Harvard. Those students—that small minority—who insisted on taking their studies seriously, who worked hard and made no effort to conceal their academic ambitions, were known as “digs” and were naturally outcasts. Socially, they had no chance. As the Crimson advised, only a little in jest, digs might be “eminently worthy” as people and it was “well to have a pleasant, bowing acquaintance with them, for they may turn out in the future to be very great men,” but their manners, like their clothes, were “apt to be bad; and except at class elections, their friendship is of no sort of use.”
There was no one who possessed such an amazing array of interests, said
He was wholly—constitutionally—incapable of indifference.
apocryphal.
“bumptious,”
disported
attainder
avidity
lassitude,
(demagoguery,
Seligmans
was a permanent source of poignant regret that even at his early age he should lose these years without the possibility of doing his best and most telling work; in that there should be the least chance that he might find his hold over the public gone when he once more came before them and this is the first time since . . .
No one seemed to do so much or to enjoy what he did so thoroughly. Yet his favorite contemporary poet was Edwin Arlington Robinson, whose themes were loneliness and the burden of personal memory.
While her marriage
