Friday, January 25, 2013

scoffer

December 1851
Southern Literary Messenger
 "Scoffer!  Thou knowest not what thou hast done."

("Scenes Beyond the Western Border," December 1851; and, with significant revisions ("Scoffer!  Who art thou, so near?") in Scenes and Adventures in the Army, as shown below.)

"Who is that scoffer," said the man in gray, not without warmth.... 
(The Confidence-Man)

1857 version with revised dialogue
Scenes and Adventures in the Army,
p. 270

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