The $30,000 bequest and other stories . night, and next morning they are it is no matter; I get a new one out of thepaper before breakfast, and thrill the domestics withit while it lasts. I have no dictionary, and I do not want one, I can select mywords by the sound, orby orthographic of them have aFrench or German or Eng-lish look, and these are theones I enslave for the daysservice. That is, as a always. If I find alearnable phrase that hasan imposing look and war-bles musically along I donot care to know the mean-ing of it; I pay it out tothe first applicant, k
The $30,000 bequest and other stories . night, and next morning they are it is no matter; I get a new one out of thepaper before breakfast, and thrill the domestics withit while it lasts. I have no dictionary, and I do not want one, I can select mywords by the sound, orby orthographic of them have aFrench or German or Eng-lish look, and these are theones I enslave for the daysservice. That is, as a always. If I find alearnable phrase that hasan imposing look and war-bles musically along I donot care to know the mean-ing of it; I pay it out tothe first applicant, knowingthat if I pronounce it care-sono dispiacentissimo fully he will understand it, and thats word was avanti. It sounds Shake-spearian, and probably means Avaunt and quit mysight. To-day I have a whole phrase: sono dispia-centissimo. I do not know what it means, but itseems to fit in everywhere and give as a rule my words and phrases are goodfor one day and train only, I have several that stay. Italian without a Master 17^ by me all the time, for some unknown reason, andthese come very handy when I get into a long con-versation and need things to fire up with in monoto-nous stretches. One of the best ones is Dovy e ilgatto. It nearly always produces a pleasant surprise,therefore I save it up for places where I want to ex-press applause or admiration. The fourth word hasa French sound, and I think the phrase means thattakes the cake. During my first week in the deep and dreamy still-ness of this woodsy and flowery place I was withoutnews of the outside world, and was well contentwithout it. It had been four weeks since I had seena newspaper, and this lack seemed to give life anew charm and grace, and to saturate it with afeeling verging upon actual delight. Then came achange that was to be expected: the appetite fornews began to rise again, after this invigorating had to feed it, but I was not willing to let it makeme its helpless
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