Regarding Charles Damoreau's return to live in New York. Transcription: [Beatrice] Damoreau, nee Pradeux. She has no idea of lowering her estimate of her allowance of carrion, and doubtless scorns him [Charles Damoreau] if he can't purvey it. He is evidently anxious on the score and works pretty hard, confessedly enjoying, however, his temporary bachelorhood. I was with him at Honey's tavern, [Frank] Cahill with us, one night, when he admitted this, trying subsequently to believe that all married life was more or less a disappointment. He evidently knows the woman's nature and in part his own
Regarding Charles Damoreau's return to live in New York. Transcription: [Beatrice] Damoreau, nee Pradeux. She has no idea of lowering her estimate of her allowance of carrion, and doubtless scorns him [Charles Damoreau] if he can't purvey it. He is evidently anxious on the score and works pretty hard, confessedly enjoying, however, his temporary bachelorhood. I was with him at Honey's tavern, [Frank] Cahill with us, one night, when he admitted this, trying subsequently to believe that all married life was more or less a disappointment. He evidently knows the woman's nature and in part his own; his shoulders are fitted to the burthen. He came to visit me, for no other reason than that he was hard-up for places to drop in at; has since found Bob Gun's room so attractive on his way up stairs, that he's journeyed no higher. They play cards pretty constantly there, drink a good deal of whiskey and talk after the manner that Don Matthias, Gil Blas' master found so delightful. I was pleased to see Charley, but we are now in no false relations; I have got the upper hand and mean to keep it. At first he was here frequently, now, infrequently. I helped him to find [John] Ware, the little, slow, Bostonian whom he billeted on me a year ago; first by letting him put a paragraph in the Pic, next by sending him to Frank Hillard, who knew Ware's address. Charley likes his Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 11, page 127, November 13, 1859 . 13 November 1859. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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