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He doesn't know some things and I don't know others." "No one has everything," said Foster quickly. "Startling fact! But we fellows who live in glass houses mustn't throw stones I 'fawncy, as my learned instructor would put it. There I am again, finding fault even with Splinter when I ought to be boning on this Greek to make up for my own lacks. Here I go!"
"Phil said that no one could possibly live on the West Side of course the fact that he and I are both living on the West Side doesn't count and the cheapest good apartments near Fifth Avenue cost four thousand dollars a year. And then one can't possibly get along with less than two cars and four maids and a chauffeur. Can't be done!" "He's right. Fawncy! Only three maids. Might as well be dead."
Ned pointed toward the table where the other boys were sitting and moved away. "Fawncy!" repeated the visitor. Ned made no reply. Instead, he marched to the table, drew a chair forward, and motioned Captain Moore to be seated. Before complying with this gracious invitation the Captain glanced around the apartment with the supercilious sneer he had shown on entering.
"Ahem-m!" repeated the professor shrilly and shifting a trifle uneasily in his seat. "I fawncy that a student always does better work in a subject which he enjoys." "Yes, but doesn't he enjoy what he can do better work in too? Now I don't know how to study Greek, can't seem to make anything out of it.
I spent a week trying to teach some of the Tommies how to play poker, but because I won thirty-five francs they declared that they didn't "Fawncy" the game. Tommy plays few card games; the general run never heard of poker, euchre, seven up, or pinochle. They have a game similar to pinochle called "Royal Bezique," but few know how to play it.
"Quite likely if you had had the decision to make, you would have passed cum laude! Ha, ha! Yes, I fawncy it might have been so, but unfortunately the decision had to be made by other parties." "But didn't I pass the examination, professor?" demanded Will. "I do not exactly recollect as to that. Quite likely you failed, since that impression seems to be vivid in your thoughts.
Will was silent, though in spite of his efforts the expression of his face betrayed somewhat the feeling of blank amazement which possessed him. "I fawncy I can trace its derivation," said the professor simply. "Doubtless when I first became a member of the faculty the appellation, or, let me see, is it an appellation or a cognomen, as you commonly have heard it?"
Concluding his rather rude observations, Captain Moore dropped his glass, shrugged his shoulders, which were heavily padded, and gave utterance to his feelings in the one word of comments which he had twice used before: "Fawncy!" Ned said not a word, but waited for the visitor to lead out in the talk.
"'Fancy, only he calls it 'fawncy'. I 'fawncy' my father is dead right when he says that I'll find a splinter everywhere and just as long as I live; but I don't believe I'll ever find one as bad as this one is." "He may be worse.
How am I doing in my Greek lately?" "I am not supposed to reply to such a question from any of the young gentlemen, but I fawncy in a general way I may be able to respond to your query.
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