Dickinson

Definition and stakes

Maria J. McIntosh,  Aunt Kitty's Tales

“ Dickinson, how is he to make the money to pay you again?"
"I will give it to him, ma'am, I will give it to him."
"That will not do," said I, "for Mr. Graham is a proud man, and as determined in his way as Mr. Dickinson is in his. He will not receive alms while he can earn a living."
Mr. Dickinson was silent a little while, then said, "I do not see what I can do, for I cannot have children here, that is certain."
"May I bring little Jessie with me to-morrow, and show you that she, like William Temple, can walk through a garden without plucking a leaf?"
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Source: Gutenberg

Maria J. McIntosh,  Aunt Kitty's Tales

“ And the garden—there was not such another garden in the country, for Mr. Dickinson had employed a very skilful English gardener, who had laid it out with great taste, and he was constantly buying for it choice and beautiful flowers. People must have something to pet. Now Mr. Dickinson being a single man, with no children to pet, had learned to make pets of his flowers. You will probably think, from all I have said, that Mr. Dickinson, with no one ever to oppose him, and plenty of money to do what he liked with, must have been a very happy man. ”
Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Alfred Henry Lewis Alfred Henry Lewis,  When Men Grew Tall, or The Story of Andrew Jackson

“ Also, he is of “good family”—that defense and final refuge of folk who would else sink from respectable sight in the mire of their own well-earned disrepute.
Mr. Dickinson has one accomplishment, a physical one. So nicely does his eye match his hand, that he may boast himself the quickest, surest shot in all the world. Knowing his vanity, and the deadly certainty of his pistols, the conspirators work upon him. They point out that to kill the General under circumstances which men approve, will be an easy instant step to greatness.
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Source: Gutenberg

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