[What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookWhat I Remember, Volume 2 CHAPTER XVII 35/39
Work the mine to the last.
Pump up every drop out of the well.
Put money i' thy purse; and add story after story to that structure of fame, which will enable you to do as much to that house by the lake side, where I _will_ hope to see you yet." * * * * * He then goes on to speak at considerable length of the society of Boston, praising it much, yet saying that it is made more charming to a visitor than to a permanent resident.
"In this it differs," he says, "from almost all the countries I have lived in in Europe, except Holland." Speaking of a visit to Washington during the inauguration of General Harrison, which seems to have delighted him much, he says he travelled back with a family, "at least with the master and mistress of it, of whom I must tell you something.
Mr.Paige is a merchant, and brother-in-law of Mr.Webster; Mrs.Paige a niece of Judge Story.
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