...Between eleven and twelve, came Herman Melville, and the two Duyckincks, in a barouche and pair...they proposed a ride and a pic-nic, to which I readily consented...After all, I suspect they had considered the possibility, if not probability, of my...
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August 8, 1851
Between eleven and twelve, came Herman Melville
August 7, 1851
Mr. Waldo, who had one
...Mr. Waldo, who had one of his little girls with him in the field, brought her hither for a few minutes. She is quite a pretty child, about three years old, with large dark eyes and a queer little merry...
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August 6, 1851
Julian was remarkably uneasy
...Julian was remarkably uneasy in the village; insomuch that i came away without purchasing some loaf-sugar, which we have wanted ever so long. He was so restless in his movements that I suspected him to be, in his technical phrase,...
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August 5, 1851
Oh, for an east-wind with
Oh, for an east-wind with a breath of the salt sea in it. Of course, this infernal atmosphere has given me a cold; and I have sat shivering all day, with an utter disinclination to move. All day, I mean,...
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August 3, 1851
The little man woke me
The little man woke me with his exclamation between two and three o'clock; and I found him wonderful to say, in a perfectly soppy state. There had been a deluge in his bed, and nowhere else....
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August 2, 1851
After dinner came Mr. Farley,
After dinner came Mr. Farley, as he had partly given me to expect, when I saaw him yesterday. He came with the purpose of trying to catch some fish, so all three of us went down to the lake. Julian...
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August 1, 1851
...Proceed[ing] homeward, I...sat down in
...Proceed[ing] homeward, I...sat down in Love Grove, to read the papers. While thus engaged, a cavalier on horseback came along the road, and saluted me in Spanish, to which I replied by touching my hat, and went on with the...
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