The Professor At the Breakfast-Table; With the Story of Iris
The book The Professor At the Breakfast-Table; With the Story of Iris was written by author Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 Here you can read free online of The Professor At the Breakfast-Table; With the Story of Iris book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Professor At the Breakfast-Table; With the Story of Iris a good or bad book?
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Probably a visit to his room would clear up all that has puzzled me, and maiie me laugh at the 208 THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. notions which began, I suppose, in nightmares, and ended by keeping my imagination at work so as almost to make me uncomfortable at times. But it is not so easy to visit him as some of our other boarders, for various reasons which I will not stop to mention. I think some of them are rather pleased to get "the Professor" under theii ceilings. The young man John..., for instance, asked me to come up one day and try some " old Burbon," which he said was A 1. On asking him what was the number of his room, he answered, that it was forty-'leven, sky-parlor floor, but that I shouldn't find it, if he didn't go ahead to show me the way. I followed him to his habitat, being very willing to see in what kind of warren he burrowed, and thinking I might pick up some- thing about the boarders who had excited my curiosity. Mighty close quarters they were where the young man John bestowed himself and his furni- ture; this last consisting of a bed, a chair, a bureau, a trunk, and numerous pegs with coats and " pants " and " vests," -r- as he was in the habit of calling waistcoats and pantaloons or trou- sers, — hanging up as if the owner had melted out of them.
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