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"Of course, I know—" he directed me: "—and then you see a little two story frame house, grey, that's
which Whitman applies this word to Carlyle, viz: II 169.) * *Volume and page quotations from the 1891-'2
I, for my part, shall never forget how he read the simple words, 'the hospitals, oh, the hospitals.'
To write the life of a human being takes many a book, and after all the story is not told."
The rest of this call's conversation consisted almost entirely of questions on my part, and extremely
The dingy little two-storied domicile is so disappointingly different from what we were expecting to
A moment later we are in his presence, in the spacious second-story room which is his sleeping apartment
his rolling and ample shirt-collar, worn without a tie, is open at the throat and exposes the upper part
Whitman is at once interested, and questions until he has drawn out the pathetic story of her struggles