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Updated: May 26, 2025

He would keep open house in the sense of encouraging his friends to visit him; and, that they might like to come, he would have a thoroughly good plain cook thereby eschewing French kickashaws and his library should contain the best new books, and etchings and sketches luring to the eye, done by men who were rising, rather than men who had risen.

Robert Grant - The Law-Breakers and Other Stories