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He was in his early teens when he waited four hours on a Boston wharf to see Lafayette's boat come in. He was thirteen when he heard Daniel Webster's oration on Adams and Jefferson. He was sixteen when he entered Harvard College, and formed his lifelong friendship with his roommate, John Lothrop Motley.
Early in the century, on a summer evening, Jean Lozier stood on the bluff looking at Kaskaskia. He loved it with the homesick longing of one who is born for towns and condemned to the fields. Moses looking into the promised land had such visions and ideals as this old lad cherished. Jean was old in feeling, though not yet out of his teens.
The boys were not yet in their teens, but Molly and Isabel Tristram were about the same age as the young Cardews. Molly was, in fact, a year older, and was a very sympathetic, strong-minded, determined girl.
"That's just what's the matter with me. I am always letting Mr. Opportunity walk past and then when I try to grab him I catch hold of his bald spot and he slips away." "Well, well," said Uncle Neil, "I don't think he's walked past you very often. You're but nineteen to-day." "I'm sure that's bad enough. That's nearly twenty, and then you're out of your teens.
Her general education was excellent, in fact far superior to that of the average young lady of good family in continental Europe. While in her early teens she became the leading feature at conservatory concerts. Her teacher won many a profitable pupil through her brilliant playing. She studies, as do so many American pupils, without making a regular business of it.
"A brave man," they said among themselves as they went on. "How long will he last?" asked one young soldier, a boy in his teens. "One cannot live long who does as he does," replied a gaunt and bearded man. "But it is a fine life while it continues. A fine life!" The boy stepped out of the shuffling line and looked behind him. He could see only the glow of Henri's eternal cigarette.
Other women would have been hysterical, but here by his side sat a girl not yet out of her teens, as calm and collected as a veteran soldier after the battle. And Amos, the man he was going to see and intended to kill if he proved to be the villain he suspected him to be, was her uncle.
You must forge her name to a heavy check, rob a church, and abduct a schoolgirl or two misses in their teens and wards of Chancery preferred and she will make it thirty, no doubt;" and Joe looked very sour. "That for her twenty pounds a week!" cried this injured man. "She owes me two thousand pounds and more. She has been my enemy, and her own. The fool! to go and peach!
The response was immediate. Entry lists, which in the old days were in "the teens," jumped to the thirties or forties, in the regular events. Young girls who, up to now, had not played tournaments, fearing they lacked the necessary class, rushed to play in the Junior girls' events.
That's the way a good many folks commence, I know, but they don't generally wait till they're out of their 'teens afore they start. I was workin' for Mrs. Philander Bassett at the time, and she says to me: 'Rachel, she says, 'you're on the mendin' hand now, wouldn't you like a book to read? I says, 'Why, maybe I would. And she fetched up three of 'em. I can see 'em now, all three, plain as day.
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