singular character of a gentleman (h. h---- esq.) living in retirement in boston,--esteemed a man of nicest honor, and his seclusion attributed to wounded feelings on account of the failure of his firm in business. yet it was discovered that this man had been the mover of intrigues by which men in business had been ruined, and their property absorbed, none knew how or by whom; love-affairs had been broken off, and much other mischief done; and for years he was not in the least suspected. he died suddenly, soon after suspicion fell upon him. probably it was the love of management,
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dr. johnson's penance in uttoxeter market. a man who does penance in what might appear to lookers-on the most glorious and triumphal circumstance of his life. each circumstance of the career of an apparently successful man to be a penance and torture to him on account of some fundamental error in early life.
a person to catch fire-flies, and try to kindle his household fire with them. it would be symbolical of something.
thanksgiving at the worcester lunatic asylum. a ball and dance of the inmates in the evening,--a furious lunatic dancing with the principal's wife. thanksgiving in an almshouse might make a better sketch.
the house on the eastern corner of north and es###### streets [salem], supposed to have been built about 1640, had, say sixty years later, a brick turret erected,
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i have not yet been twenty yards from our house and barn; but i begin to perceive that this is a beautiful place. the scenery is of a mild and placid character, with nothing bold in its aspect; but i think its beauties will grow upon us, and make us love it the more,
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it was a moment or two before i could think whom you meant by mr. dismal view. why, he is one of the best of the brotherhood, so far as cheerfulness goes; for if he do not laugh himself,
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