Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Malbone” in chapter 10 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays:
... Island, and I found ready distraction in the new friendships and social life of that attractive place of residence.
Of this portion of my life I have already given some glimpse in the novel called Malbone and in the collection of sketches called Oldport days, so that I will not dwell further upon it here.
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