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Although loath to renounce his freedom, Mirza-Schaffy determined for Hafisa's sake to make application, as he had often been advised to do, at the Tiflis Gymnasium for the position of teacher of Tartaric. But, alas! there was prepared for our poor Mirza a humiliation second only to the bastinado. His reply was a portentous document in the Russian language, of which he could not read a word.
"Cowards!" exclaimed Mother Wit, dramatically. "That's why she got her mother to go to mine. And I am real angry with mother " "Oh, Laura! we wouldn't offend your mother for anything," said Nell, hastily. "Or put her in an uncomfortable position," Bobby added. "She's been too nice to us all." "And, of course, we have to stand Lil in the school and gymnasium.
After the scholarships had been disposed of, a representative of each of the three lower classes in turn, beginning with the freshmen, presented the gymnasium money to Miss Thompson. The freshmen had collected over three hundred dollars, the sophomores five hundred and the juniors six hundred and fifty dollars.
One or two of the Crows put up a good fight, and managed to squirm away from the gagging boxing-gloves and let out a yelp; but the heavy door of the gymnasium kept the secret mum, and there was something so surprising about the ambuscade in the dark that the Dozen soon had the half-dozen securely gagged and fettered.
"I shall wear it always, always," she managed to say as she pinned it in the lace of her gown, "and I'll thank you for it properly at another time." At ten o'clock that night, three very tired but wide-awake little Freshmen, who had watched the dance from the gymnasium balcony, climbed the flight of stairs leading to Fifth Avenue, bearing in their arms three bouquets.
If we take a walk or go to the gymnasium, we simply waste that much time, and we also lessen the stored-up energy by whatever of effort is called out. We can skip the dumb-bells and perform any other kind of exercise that is good for the health; and always with the certainty that we shall have more strength for the first half of the day if none is wasted in this way.
To Dam it seemed that the advice was superfluous and of God's mercy on his soul he had had experience. Returning to their corners, the two stripped to the waist and sat ready, arrayed in shorts and gymnasium shoes. Seen thus, they looked most unevenly matched, Harberth looking still bigger for undressing and Dam even smaller.
"There happens to be another gentleman in the town who up to date had a pretty poor opinion of boys in general, but who's had a change come over him, a revolutionary change, I should say, because he'd been in to see Mr. Holliday, asking for facts and figures, and then binding himself to stand for every dollar still needed to put the gymnasium on a firm footing, without going one cent in debt!"
He learned that Jeff was a frequenter of the gymnasium, where his strength must have been known, but he could not make out that he had any standing among the men who went in for athletics. If Jeff had even this, the sort of standing in college which he failed of would easily have been won, too.
You were like a flash of lightning." "I meant to be," said Walter, smiling. "I haven't attended a gymnasium for nothing." "Do you think he will attack us again?" asked the professor timidly. "No; he has no revolver and I have. Besides, I don't mean to be taken at a disadvantage. If yon will drive, I will hold the revolver ready for instant use."
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