Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867 [1853], Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to (Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., Rochester) [word count] [eaf745T].
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Preliminaries
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Hic Fructus Virtutis; Clifton Waller Barrett
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FUN-JOTTINGS.
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Preliminaries
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FUN-JOTTINGS;
OR,
LAUGHS I HAVE TAKEN A PEN TO
BY
N. PARKER WILLIS.
AUBURN:
ALDEN, BEARDSLEY & CO
ROCHESTER:
WANZER, BEARDSLEY & CO.
1853.
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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853 by
CHARLES SCRIBNER.
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District
of New York.
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PREFACE.
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We do not expect the world to receive our smiles with
the instant sympathy and trust which we expect for our
tears. A smile may pardonably be thought a caprice of
one's own. We write, therefore, with correspondent
carelessness or digressiveness, upon incidents that, in
passing, have merely amused us—quite prepared to find
that they are not so amusing (at second-hand) to others.
It would be startling to the reader, sometimes, to know
how much truth there is in “fiction.” Things that could
never else be told, are hidden in story. And every circumstance
of the narrative may be pure invention,
while the secret is still told—the soul's thirst for revealing
it, fully satisfied. After reading a novel once, for
the story, it is often a charming leisure task to go over
it thoughtfully, again, picking out the hidden thread of
feeling or experience, upon which its pearls are strung.
To value or merit in the sketches which follow, the
author makes no definite pretension. They record, under
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more or less of disguise, turns of event or of character,
which have amused him. In re-compiling his past
writings into volumes, these lighter ones have been laid
aside, and they are now trusted to take their chance by
themselves, appealing to whatever indulgence may be in
store, in the reader's mind, for a working-pen at play.
Idlewild, July, 1853.
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CONTENTS.
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Larks in Vacation, 11
Meena Dimity; or, why Mr. Brown Crash took the
Tour, 45
Mrs. Passable Trott, 55
The Spirit-Love of “Ione S—,” 62
The Ghost Ball at Congress Hall, 72
Pasquali, the Tailor of Venice, 84
The Widow by Brevet, 97
Nora Mehidy; or, the strange road to the heart of
Mr. Hypolet Leathers, 114
The Marquis in Petticoats, 123
Tom Fane and I, 135
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The Poet and the Mandarin, 152
The Countess of Nyschriem, and the Handsome
Artist, 166
The Inlet of Peach-Blossoms, 176
The Belle of the Belfry; or the Daring Lover, 190
The Female Ward, 201
The Pharisee and the Barber, 220
Mabel Wynne, 230
The Bandit of Austria, 244
My One Adventure as a Brigand, 294
Count Pott's Strategy, 303
The Power of an “Injured Look,” 314
Mrs. Flimson, 326
FROM SARATOGA.
To the Julia of some years ago, 329
To Miss Violet Maby, at Saratoga, 333
Another Letter from the same Gentleman, 337
Cinna Beveriey, Esq., to Alexis Von Puhl, 340
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Social Distinctions in England, 344
Miss Albina McLush, 352
The Need of Two Loves, 357
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Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867 [1853], Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to (Wanzer, Beardsley & Co., Rochester) [word count] [eaf745T].
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