My black mood lifted a little, though. The lad must be subject to fits. VTHE WAY OF FORTUNEPerhaps John Quarles's jocular, happy-go-lucky nature and general conductdid not altogether harmonize with John Clemens's more taciturn businessmethods. I'd like us to be friends.
An example of Comstockhumor, regarded as the finest assay, is an incident still told of LeslieBlackburn and Pat Holland, two gay men about town. His eyes moved in innocent curiosity around the circle of staring faces. )At my insistence, we all assumed our most elegant attire and tried to behave as if this were a conventional meeting of long-parted friends and relations. Since Irving no humorist in prose has held the foundation of a permanent fame except it be Mark Twain, and this, as in the case of Irving, is because he is a pure writer.
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