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"It's my bringing up, sir," she said mockingly. "Ancestral habit," he explained, with a polite bow. "Pedigreeable manners, perhaps." "I wish the mater could have heard you say that." admiringly. "Don't you adore the country at this time of the year?" "When I get to heaven I mean to have a place in the country the year round," he said conclusively. "And if you don't get to heaven?"

The mater got a notion she wanted me to come up to Bar Harbor and bring down the yacht. I brought three fellows with me. Some spree! But we're good little boys. The captain struck. Waiting for another. Won't round up at your place for another week. I'm yours and don't forget it. It seems like a week of Sundays. Mater popped the news she's going to open up old Grassmere pretty soon.

"Because mater familias said I was to make you bring them if I stayed for them all day." "Yes, yes, they're all here every one." Lady Enid was gazing at the Prophet's slim form with almost passionate curiosity. It was evidently a problem to her how he had managed to conceal so many various commodities about his person without altering his shape.

'If you have such a poor opinion of us, why do you wear our colour? asked Dolly, painfully conscious that he was not improving the advantages his Alma Mater offered him, but bound to defend her. 'I don't; my hat is scarlet, not crimson. Much you know about a colour, scoffed Josie.

"You needn't go telling the mater, but I was off my feed a whole day after the sports. How soon do fellows get money enough to marry? If I get the Swift Scholarship I shall have £20 a-year for three years something to start with. I wish you'd come down and give me a leg-up. I'm afraid that cad Smedley's got his eye on her. His father's only a doctor.

He, of whom his own mother spoke in such ignorant contempt, as a "farmer," a "lumberman," yet who was the most finished scholar and gentleman that Adrian had ever met. "Well, I can't get home till after that wretched dinner, and I should have to wait for the next train, anyway, even if the 'mater' would let me off.

McFeckless and my poor old mother were the only ones with any real rank and position but you know what a beastly bounder Mac was, and the poor mater DID overdo the youthful! We never called the doctor in until the day she wanted to go to a swell ball in London as Little Red Riding-hood.

It was the first time he had seen the family resemblance quite so marked. "Ronny Devereux was saying . . ." faltered Freddie. "Damn Ronny Devereux!" "Oh, absolutely! But . . ." "Ronny Devereux! Who the devil is Ronny Devereux?" "Why, old man, you've heard me speak of him, haven't you? Pal of mine. He came down to the station with Algy and me to meet your mater that morning." "Oh, that fellow?

Such clerks might in many cases sever their connection with the banks to which they were appointed and start in business on their own account. They would, however, probably look upon the institution as their 'Alma Mater, Every endeavour should be made to promote esprit de corps; and where exceptional ability is developed it should be ungrudgingly rewarded.

They are to meet on some common ground, and that common ground is the love that all are supposed to bear to the old Alma Mater, cherished by memories of past friendships in their college associations. The late Commencement was one of peculiar note. It was the first after the return of peace.