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All the difference would be that I should go with you. You could leave me on the quay, where I'd have a smoke, while you went and saw your father and mother privately; you could then tell them what you had done, and that I was waiting not far off; that I was a school-master in a fairly good position, and a young man you had known when you were at the Training College.
How was this shed his college? We have seen that he brought with him from his native village an amount of information, habits of observation, and a knowledge of books unusual in rustics of that day, and even of the present time.
When Siwash College was founded by "that noble band of Christian truth seekers," as the catalogue puts it, Jonesville was a mud-hole freckled with houses. The railroad trains whistled "get out of my way" to the town when they whooped through it, and when you went into a merchant's store and woke him up he started off home to dinner from force of habit.
These useful pills made the college very popular and taught the boys and girls of Oz their lessons in the easiest possible way. In spite of this, Professor Wogglebug was not a favorite outside his college, for he was very conceited and admired himself so much and displayed his cleverness and learning so constantly, that no one cared to associate with him.
But, in the meantime, I am much occupied, and will be confined all day. I have no time for letters of affection, so must tell you good-bye. "Most affectionately, "R. E. Lee." This was the first final examination at Washington College since my father became its president.
I had hitherto been unable to understand Henry's idea about his meals, but I think I can appreciate it now. Saloonio They say that young men fresh from college are pretty positive about what they know.
I'm a college man, even though I did go as an exhibitioner. I was a school teacher when those fellows were wielding pick-axes." Dartrey looked at his companion thoughtfully. For a single moment the words trembled upon his lips which would have brought things to an instant and profitless climax.
Her son didn't know about it, however. She was keeping the news to surprise him. "And then, that day at luncheon, she received a telegram from him saying he had left college and enlisted in the Union army and was coming home at once to bid her good-bye before going to the front! The shock of it almost killed her! But later she thought that surely, when he came, she could persuade him out of it.
"What has happened more than usual?" inquired Hamish. "It gets worse and worse," said Tom, turning his blazing face upon his brother. "I wouldn't wish a dog to live the life that I live in the college school. They call me a felon, and treat me as one; they send me to Coventry; they won't acknowledge me as one of their seniors. My position is unbearable." "Live it down, Tom," said Hamish quietly.
Good Dr. Walsingham, indeed, in his simple benevolence, had helped the strange, kindly creature through college, and had a high opinion of him, and a great delight in his company. They were both much given to books, and according to their lights zealous archæologists. They had got hold of Chapelizod Castle, a good tough enigma. It was a theme they never tired of.
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