#Samuel Merwin

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putterings, 421

                                                                                  all ready now                                                                   about the fire with a show of keeping himself occupied                                                         about the table, he came over to                                                 little lamps with steel instruments like knitting-needles. She saw                                         parts of the gliders Humphrey had been puttering with for a long time.                                 Three years, he had once said                         over her make-up box.                 She seemed really confused.         Finally she turned, said, with averted glance “Stop puttering. Come over here.”  

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all ready now

                                                                  about the fire with a show of keeping himself occupied   ₁                                                         about the table, he came over to   ₂                                                 little lamps with steel instruments like knitting-needles. She saw   ₃                                         parts of the gliders Humphrey had been puttering with for a long time.                                 Three years, he had once said   ₄                         over her make-up box.                 She seemed really confused.         Finally she turned, said, with averted glance   ₅ “Stop puttering. Come over here.”   ₆

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sources, all Samuel Merwin

1 The Road to Frontenac (1901) : 91 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link 2 His Little World : The Story of Hunch Badeau (1903) : 23 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link 3 The Charmed Life of Miss Austin (1914) : 17 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link 4 Henry is Twenty : A Further Episodic History of Henry (1918) : 215 NYPL copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link 5 The Moment of Beauty (1925) : 294 U Michigan copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link 6 The Citadel : A Romance of Unrest (1912) : 407 LoC copy/scan (via hathitrust) : link

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#Samuel Merwin