Charles Waddell Chesnutt (June 20, 1858 November 15, 1932) was an African-American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of racial and social identity in the post-Civil War South
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Two gentlemen were seated, one March morning in 189, in the private office of French and Company, Limited, on lower Broadway. Mr. Kirby, the junior partnera man of thirty-five, with brown hair and mustache, clean-cut, handsome features, and an alert manner, was smoking cigarettes almost as fast as he could roll them, and at the same time watching the electric clock upon the wall and getting up now and then to stride restlessly back and forth across the room.
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Two gentlemen were seated, one March morning in 189, in the private office of French and Company, Limited, on lower Broadway. Mr. Kirby, the junior partnera man of thirty-five, with brown hair and mustache, clean-cut, handsome features, and an alert manner, was smoking cigarettes almost as fast as he could roll them, and at the same time watching the electric clock upon the wall and getting up now and then to stride restlessly back and forth across the room.
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