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Updated: June 3, 2025

Hilary, but another visitor, much more to Mr. dowry's taste, was Mr. Flosky, a very lachrymose and morbid gentleman, of some note in the literary world, with a very fine sense of the grim and the tearful. But the dearest friend of Mr. Glowry, and his most welcome guest, was Mr. Toobad, the Manichean Millenarian.

- The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction

"I think I'll postpone telling you about it till we get nearly home again," Alice said, as they began to saunter down one of the gravelled paths. "There's a bench beside a spring farther on; we can sit there and talk about a lot of things things not so sticky as my dowry's going to be." "'Sticky?" he echoed. "What in the world " She laughed despairingly. "A glue factory!"

Booth Tarkington - Alice Adams