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"I don't mind much not really." He began to walk on, Rufus tagging valiantly at his heels. "And and if anyone asks you'll say I was at your place doing prep. won't you?" "Oh, rather " "It's awfully decent of you. You don't mind telling fibs, do you, Robert?" "One has to," Robert answered austerely. "Everyone has to."
"Late for Gates" was a more serious crime, involving detention from beloved games and many were the expedients to which we resorted to avoid such an untoward contingency. I remember well waiting for an hour outside the porter's view, hoping for some delivery wagon to give me a chance to get inside. For it was far too light to venture to climb the lofty railings before "prep" time.
There's something not half bad in the Coll. buildings on a night like this. I shall be jolly sorry to leave, in spite of Ward and the Mutual. 'Same here, by Jove. We've each got a couple more years, though, if it comes to that. Hullo, prep.'s over. The sound of footsteps began to be heard from the direction of the College. Nine had struck from the School clock, and the Great Hall was emptying.
"Careful of that stick, my man," says he. "Oh, sure!" says I. "Puppah'd be wild if anything happened to it, wouldn't he?" And you should have heard the talk they had as they loafs around the cloakroom between the numbers, all about the awful things they did at prep school, how they bunked the masters, and smuggled brandied peaches up to their rooms, and rough-housed durin' mornin' prayers.
That is, if you haven't any other engagement," and here he snickered, for there was a rumor current in the Prep that Hilton was secretly devoted to some unknown charmer. The insinuation fell harmless, as far as the young professor was concerned. "I shall be delighted, if you'll be so good as to let me," he said gratefully, with his sincere gaze on the festive group about the dainty table.
Dan wore frayed collars and jackets much too small for him; his shoes were stubby-toed and often patched; he made pocket money in various ways, by "fagging" and odd jobbing for the big boys of the college. But he led the classes and games of the Prep with equal success; and even now the Latin class medal was swinging from the breast of his shabby jacket.
Then I went over to the Prep. to see if any more walking wounded had arrived, but there were none at all. I stood out in the open for a few minutes in order to breathe the fresh air. There was a roar and rumble of distant drum-fire. The trees behind the C.C.S. stood out blackly against the pallid flashes that lit up the entire horizon. The mortuary attendant came walking along the duckboards.
I know what it will be now I shall get so worn out that I shall fail in my examination." "Preparation! More prep! I call that adding insult to injury. If it had been a class, I wouldn't have minded half so much. I'm sick and tired of school. I'll ask my mother if I may leave the day I am seventeen." "And I was going out on Wednesday!
During the weeks which followed, "Pixie's Prep" became a by-word among her companions, for no amount of goading seemed sufficient to keep her attention from roaming from her books during the hours when it was most necessary that she should give them her undivided attention.
Although a "prep," he made many friends among the undergraduates of Lehigh. He made friends with the friends of his uncle and many friends in both of the Bethlehems of which his uncle had probably never heard.
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