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Updated: June 9, 2025
It is perhaps due to a chance conversation, held some seventeen years ago in New York, that this Diary of the Civil War was saved from destruction. A Philadelphian had been talking with my mother of North and South, and had alluded to the engagement between the Essex and the Arkansas, on the Mississippi, as a brilliant victory for the Federal navy.
Owen Wister, a young Philadelphian witness of their dramatic conditions and characteristics; Mr. Hamlin Garlafid had already expressed the sad circumstances of the rural Northwest in his pathetic idyls, colored from the experience of one who had been part of what he saw. Later came Mr.
The pretty girls who were nicknamed Blue and Red had outgrown childhood, and they saw no particular charm in work; they were very dull, and scarce knew why, except that they half envied Eliza, who had gone to the hotel, and who, it was well known, had a suitor in the person of Mr. Cyril Harkness, the Philadelphian dentist.
"Of course," he confessed, "as a professor of literature I'm not supposed to have read Dangerous Dan McGrew." "Are you a native?" "No, I'm a Philadelphian. Imported from Harvard to teach French. But I've been here ten years." "Nine years, three hundred an' sixty-four days longer than me." "Like it here?" "Uh-huh. Sure do!" "Really?" "Well, why not? Don't I look as if I were havin' a good time?"
But then people disappear for many causes in Caracuna. Politics here are somewhat well Philadelphian in method. But there is smoke rising from behind Capo Blanco." "What is there?" inquired the girl. "The lazaretto. Still, it might be yellow fever, or only smallpox. The Government is not generous with information.
The hostess belonged to a very old Philadelphian family, and she shook her head. "I should say it was a compliment for even the ghost of Miss Lydia Carew to approve of one," she said severely. The next morning, when the sisters entered their drawing-room there were numerous evidences of an occupant during their absence.
"Railroads, his father, aind't it?" said the German. "Yep. That and mines and lumber and shipping. Built one place at San Diego, the old man has; another at Los Angeles; owns half a dozen railroads, half the lumber on the Pacific slope, and lets his wife spend the money," the Philadelphian went on lazily. "The West don't suit her, she says.
There are besides, the Academies of the Philadelphian Friends, and the German Lutherans; Sunday and Lancasterian schools; and, of course, divers Bible and Tract Societies, which are patronized by all the antiquated dames in the city, and superintended by the Methodist and Presbyterian parsons.
The sharp British replies to American representations on the question of the 'black list' and the 'post-blockade, and, England's latest pin-prick, the refusal of the request for a free passage for the Austrian Ambassador, condemned even by such a pro-British paper as the Philadelphian Public Ledger as a 'British affront, have created a very bad impression.
Any one can stay there who is worth two millions of dollars, or can produce a certificate from the Recorder of New York that he is a direct descendant of Hendrick Hudson or Diedrich Knickerbocker. It is needless to say that it was built by a Philadelphian that is to say one born with a genius for hotel-keeping.
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