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Updated: May 27, 2025
Either he was very little qualified to teach, or he must have been pre-occupied with some undertaking of his own; for he was only too willing I should read in the hours he ought to have devoted to me, himself working at something else. Thus, by virtue of a tacit agreement between us, I did not complain of learning nothing, and he kept secret my book-borrowing.
Connecticut folk seemed to be particularly given to this slipshod fashion of promiscuous and unlicensed book-borrowing, if we can trust the apparent proof given by Connecticut newspapers in their many advertisements of lost books. One ungallant soul advertised for "the she-person that borrowed Mr. Thos. Browns Works from a gentleman she is well acquainted with."
Somewhere in this wilderness one came, I remember, upon a big harp beside a lyre-shaped music stand, and a grand piano.... The book-borrowing raid was one of extraordinary dash and danger. One came down the main service stairs that was legal, and illegality began in a little landing when, very cautiously, one went through a red baize door.
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