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Updated: May 24, 2025

When a performer from the Olympia, the music hall on the Boulevard des Italiens, sang a distressing love ballad in a series of shrieks like those of a circular saw in a lumber mill, this person shouted his "Bravos" with the rest and then, waving his hands before my face, called for, "De cheer Americain! One, two, tree Heep! Heep! Heep! Oo ray-y-y!"

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - Kent Knowles: Quahaug