With as little bias in the
second tale, I have etched the young Northern truant abroad during the
secession. The closing tale, more recently written, in the midst of
constant toil and travel, is an attempt to recall an old suburb, now
nearly erased and illegible by the extension of a great city, and may be
considered a home American picture about contemporary with the European
tales.
CONTENTS.
SHORT NOVELS.
THE REBEL COLONY IN PARIS 13
MARRIED ABROAD 99
THE DEAF MAN OF KENSINGTON 155
CHORDS.
BOHEMIA 9
LITTLE GRISETTE 93
THE PIGEON GIRL 149
THE DEAD BOHEMIAN 279
BOHEMIA.
The farther I do grow from _La Boheme_,
The more I do regret that foolish shame
Which made me hold it something to conceal,
And so I did myself expatriate;
For in my pulses and my feet I feel
That wayward realm was still my own estate;
Wise wagged our tongues when the dear nights grew late,
And quainter, clearer, rose our quick conceits,
And pure and mutual were our social sweets.
Oh! ever thus convivial round the gate
Of Letters have the masters and the young
Loitered away their enterprises great,
Since Spenser revelled in the halls of state,
And at his tavern rarest Jonson sung.
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