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Deaths me to him. I was not her son, but he felt that this was my misfortune
had got upon the terms of editor and contributor, we met oftener than
again for me. Once he gave me something, and then took it back, with a
domestic in a small house.html">house on the street amusingly called Appian Way. He
he was ever anything but a lodger in the place, where he continued till
of me, that he formed the habit of giving me an annual supper. Some days
and tentative approaches, nearly always of the same tenor, he would say
you know," he would explain, "I haven't a house of my own to ask you to,
this suggestion with due gravity, he would inquire our engagements, and
up a few oysters to-morrow," or whatever day we had fixed on; and after a
way. On the day appointed the fish-man would come with several gallons
the evening the giver of the feast would reappear, with a lank oil-cloth
wine, and sometimes a bottle of champagne, and he had taken the
as entirely of his own giving as possible. He was forced to let us do
himself for putting us to these charges and for the use of our linen and
inundated for days. He did not care to eat many himself, but seemed
in life, than in the hospitality that so oddly played the host to us at
should ever have been willing to leave Cambridge, and in fact I do not
resentment. As often as I happened to meet him after our defection he
ethereal for remembrance. The last time I met him was at Lowell's
revulsion from the stress of that saddest event, had our laugh, as people
friend we mourned.
My nearest literary neighbor, when we lived in Sacramento Street, was the
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