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… conclusion. Counting men killed in battle, those who died of wounds, and those who died of disease, the Confederate army lost altogether only 4,626 officers. It staggers credulity to assert that so small a … else, some honest according to their lights, and some most complete, finished, conscienceless rogues in any light, but …

… this rather minimal invasion of my privacy. Perhaps I’ve become too American. Or not yet American enough. As I go about … mathematics, and chemistry with an identical number of points. Together we crammed for the last exam—literature—and … minutes, mostly about our children. Her older daughter studied piano at the music college where Marina worked, she …

… tank   says, It only takes one or two  seconds to become   helpless in flowing grain , or among flowering … ice.               I love her for pretending to die    a lie of such richness   and for being able to die, both of us              any moment, so that when I …

… a joke and chaff each other.” Real turmoil seems to have come only once. The college had a library of 2,000 volumes; … Charles and George Jr. Alas, Harriet had a weak heart, and died in 1833. Charles died of scarlet fever the following … gathered by travelers abroad like Minister Marsh and by 26 Army expeditions in the American West. The minister also …

… novel. In a brief notebook entry for Aug. 10, 1885, James complained that he had “never yet become engaged in a novel in which, after I had begun to write … was a time when I went in immensely for illuminated missals, and another when I collected ghost-stories (she wanted …