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Updated: May 3, 2025

DEAR FRIEND, I am etonne, as the French have it; at least Moliere and Corneille whom I have been reading by and large of late, having read all the new things I could get hold of-are continually having their personages etonned. Or, I feel like Dominie Sampson, and say, "Pro-di-gi-ous!" Not as he said it to Meg Merrilies, but rather to Miss Julia Mannering, when he was confounded with her vivacity.

Orville Dewey - Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D.: Edited by his Daughter