This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...expected to like him half so well. Not that he has lost all his faults, very far from it--they showed themselves more and more the longer he stayed at home; but he is conscious of them, and tries to conquer them--a great point gained. After he had been gone an hour or two, Wolcott came into the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...expected to like him half so well. Not that he has lost all his faults, very far from it--they showed themselves more and more the longer he stayed at home; but he is conscious of them, and tries to conquer them--a great point gained. After he had been gone an hour or two, Wolcott came into the sittingroom with a very troubled face. "What a careless fellow!" he said, impatiently; "he has taken my coat, and left his own. Now I should just like to know what is to be done 1" Such looks of dismay as his mother and I interchanged! Wolcott was to go early to-morrow, and there would be no time to make the exchange. How could he have done so? We did very little but ask this question, without attempting to answer it, for the first five minutes. At length his mother said, " Go and look in his closet for yours; he may have worn his old one by mistake--the old one he has been wearing here at home, and forgotten this." "I have looked in every closet in the house before I came to trouble you. The old ones are all here, but mine is gone. What can I, can I do 1" No one can tell the depth of painful disquietude which Wolcott's voice expressed; no one but his mother and I, who understood the whole perfectly. "And all my best things, which I had put so carefully in my pockets, so as not to forget them, or to be in a hurry to-morrow--all, all gone. My new gloves Aunt Fanny gave me, my pocket-handkerchief, memorandum-book, keys--I declare, my trunk-keys were there!" and Wolcott looked appalled by this new dilemma. H "Put your hand in his pockets, and see what he has left there; his trouble may be as great as yours," I said. "Not an article! Why, what will he care 1 he has his trunk in the city, ...
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