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"Mayn't any one else pity you?" asked Tommy Shackel, the smallest midshipman on board, who was apt to take a malicious pleasure in seeing his seniors have a scrimmage among each other. "Hold your tongue, Master Jackanapes!" exclaimed Voules; "Oswald knows best what he likes and dislikes." "I only asked a question," said Tommy, in his squeaky voice; "and I put it to Oswald, and not to you."
There were seniors who had requisitioned a chance-met Rajah's elephant, in the name of St Francis Xavier, when the Rains once blotted out the cart-track that led to their father's estate, and had all but lost the huge beast in a quicksand.
But it lay not in him; not in his capabilities or opportunities, after all: and we but waste time in such speculations. The Culmbach Brothers, we observe, play a more important part in that era than their seniors and chiefs of Brandenburg.
Her absolute secrecy also won her the confidence of their seniors; for, like Ninon, she had certain manly qualities. As a rule, our confidence is given to those below rather than above us.
Our dignity as seniors has been attacked and the standards of Wellington lowered." "I don't believe any juniors had a hand in it," put in Judy, "because we are so friendly with them." Nance nudged Molly. "She's afraid somebody's going to blame that charming Adele," she whispered. "If it's any of the Wellington girls, it's more likely to be among the sophomores," announced Edith decisively.
Professor Frazer had a funny, easy friendliness; his sister-in-law, a Diana in brown, respectfully asked Carl about the practicability of motor-cars, and all of them, including two newly come "high-brow" seniors, listened with nodding interest while Carl bashfully analyzed each of the nine cars owned in Plato and Jamaica Mills.
"Youth is asking questions as never before asking awkward, burning questions, which put its seniors in a flutter. The seniors, under question, discover that they have no body of doctrine, and have never till now dreamt of the need of any.
Valetta said Fergus had tried to stop it, but there had certainly been one effect, namely, that Adrian was less disposed to be "Merry's" shadow than heretofore, and seemed inclined instead to take up with the other seniors. One thing, however, was certain. Gerald enjoyed a good deal more consideration among the Clipstone damsels than before.
An' now, Heller, do tell these poor, benighted, lazy loons that I must have me coky-nuts fresh, an' as great a variety av fish as can be procured in these wathers. The chap that preshumes to bring me an owld coky-nut I'll curse his basket an' his shtore." After a brief missionary effort, Heller reported that the whole population of the island, barring a few obstinate seniors, had been baptized.
She had heard what passed aloud; and, as the eldest girl, had been so constantly among the seniors, and so often supposed to be intent on her own occupations when they were conversing, that she had already the knowledge that magnum bonum, was the pet home term for some great discovery in medical, science that her father had been pursuing, with many disappointments and much incredulity from the few friends to whom it had been mentioned, but with absolute confidence on his own part.
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