"Amid my flights—they shall be our chit-chat, not "light reading"—I shall often be sober, serious, if not sublime."Curiously, "chit-chat" with the aside in which it occurs was deleted in revision for the 1857 book, thus:
("Scenes Beyond the Western Border," Southern Literary Messenger 15 (June 1851): 372-373)
"But amid my flights, I shall often be sober, serious, if not sublime. "
(Scenes and Adventures in the Army)
"... a choice present of some very recherche chit-chat"
Pierre (1852)
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