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The sixth crossing I fell behind; it was all I could do, and at its close I crept out on the bank and lay down. My roommate, Tom Freeman, struck out for a seventh. He was nearly over when the boys by my side uttered a cry. Tom was giving out. He was in a sort of hysterical laughter from exhaustion, and, though able to keep above the water, he could not make any headway.
A tiger, now, has his deficiencies, perhaps, viewed as a roommate; yet a tiger is at least acceptable to the eye, a vision very pleasantly suggestive, we will say, of buttered toast; whereas, our fellow-creatures, my dear Louis, " And in this strain de Puysange continued, with intolerably scandalous examples as parapets for his argument. That night de Soyecourt re-read this paragraph.
"You will oblige me greatly, Eva, by referring more respectfully to my friend, Mr. Hammond," said Marian with offended dignity. Then she sailed out of the room, her train dragging half a yard behind her, while Eva turned to the mirror with a contemptuous sniff and powdered her little freckled nose almost savagely before following her irate roommate down stairs.
It was Thanksgiving day and years ago and my roommate Ned and I were staring glumly over the roofs of the town. "I've got an invitation for Thanksgiving dinner for both of us," said Ned. "But I feel kind of doubtful about going." I inquired what kind of invitation. "An engraved invitation," grinned Ned. "Here it is. I'll read it to you."
"What are we going to do?" asked Ted as Jack joined him in the torpedo chamber. "Haven't quite figured out yet, chum," answered his old Brighton roommate. "I'll confess that things don't look very rosy for us, but I'm not going to give up, nor will 'Little Mack' give up, until we have thought this thing over for awhile."
A voice came from the group of reporters: "Why, he's your roommate!" "I know it damn it! Keep on. Judge Tiffany has been caring for him, holding him up so he could bear it, assisted by Miss Sadie Brown, a camper at Santa Eliza. She's the one I was talking to." "Who is she? Any chance for a photograph?" "I braced her for a picture. She wouldn't stand for it." "Let me try! I'll get it."
I'll pick only the best. I will not risk a game even for friendship's sake even for your sake, little roommate." "I mean to be the best player," said Hester quietly. Helen's calmness had always the effect of quieting her in her intense excitement. But Miss Hester had yet to learn that other powers than one's own desire, enter into results.
He had, in fact, said to his roommate on getting the summons to the interview, "If the doctor thinks he is going to break me in he'll find himself mistaken."
She heartily wished that she had not been obliged to say a word to rob her roommate of the first joy of meeting. While traversing the few yards that lay between the station and the point behind it where several taxicabs waited, both she and Adrienne chattered lively commonplaces. Jane, however, had little to say.
Jennie made friends without putting forth any effort, it seemed. "Oh, I wish I had Jennie for a roommate," thought Nancy Nelson. "I really would be happy then, I do believe." But this day seemed not to be a bad one for Nancy, after all. Cora waited for her, with her skates, after recitations were over, and they joined a party of Cora's chums on the way to the river.
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