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Wilhelminus

The unnamed gentleman's mock-Latinate name in ‘A Tale’ (paired with his brother ‘Robertus’); his delight in an unfurnished cottage and his grand pretensions on a beggarly scale — two ‘noble Tents’ made of old blankets on sticks — carry the fragment's joke before it breaks off mid-sentence.

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Scraps Juvenilia · 2 mentions