Common Com plaints and social sketches in verse and prose
A fragmentary collection of dialogue and character sketches. The piece features snippets about a man’s new job and its limited scope, a girl lamenting freckles and desire, and quick character notes on Miss Harcourt Miss Briggins the Cynic and others. It ends with a speaker contemplating leaving home and changing address.
Not Self Made. A dialog on work and identity.
An excerpt features clipped exchanges about honesty in business, stenography, and the effects of drink on character. A wife who was a stenographer, a remark on making a man what he is, and a reflection on self awareness appear in a terse, perfunctory exchange.
Untitled passage sparks gossip among household staff
A fragmentary dialogue reveals Mrs Bordén and others discussing a man named De Kanter. Remarks hint at romantic suspicion and strained household dynamics as a chambermaid notes dirty sheets and left shoes, suggesting tension and curiosity among the onlookers.
Fragmented dialogue hints at marriage option and agency
The fragment shows a conversation about a man and a woman named Mame. It hints that a person is engaged while another has no such arrangement. The speakers discuss why she does not hand action to a collection agency and what Mame implies by having an option on Marry.
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Mame
Not Superstitious Exchange on Cures and Risks
A brief verse-like exchange questions a horse chestnut curing rheumatism and the speaker prefers risking a horse amounoer rather than trusting a superstition. The repartee plays on belief and practicality.
Fortune Hunter and Heiress in Odd Snippets
A collection of pithy quotes and quips on wealth, fate, and social pretenses. Snippets reference fortune seeking, wills, bets, and moral judgments with a humoristic tone from a bygone era.
Agrees Ends in Seige Scene at Gutasa Won
An agreement reached amid a tense standoff at Gutasa sees key figures from 2 groups proceed with talks. The breakthrough reduces immediate danger and sets a timetable for final accords. Local observers caution that details remain fragile and subject to verification by officials.
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Mies Harcourt
Dex
Miss Briggins
Poor Baldheld
Hettle
Klevitschey
Fetay
Mr Simmison
City and Country
Mr. Johnson
New York
Tron
Ropos
Mr. Spiegstheim
Jack
Maud
Ea Gutasa
Willlex
Atery Ovemi
Maine