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Despite his deep aesthetic investment in these people, James never warmed up to the “terribly earthy and unlicked” Duveneck.

No envelope would go unpushed, or unlicked.

This unlicked cub was to come and be a sort of general factotum to him, and do his best to help him with his work, and so on.

He told us at dinner that he had come up to find a good ignorant unlicked cub to help him with his work, who could be trusted to obey an order when he received one and act for himself when he did not.

This book, like Hodge's razors, was "made to sell;" and if the sometime good-natured world will pay the price, and have its huge grim smile over these unlicked fancies—although in a political, moral, or utilitarian sense it will have gained nothing—it will, in a literal if not literary view, lose nothing.