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Perhaps you wonder how he had time to do all this and to mix up in all the various departments of student bumptiousness, besides absorbing enough information laid down and prescribed by the curriculum to batter an "A" out of old Grubb, who hated to give a top mark worse than most men hate to take quinine. That's one of the mysteries of college life. No one has time to do anything but the busy man.
He knew no more of social customs, literature, and art than any other street lad. He had not belonged to the aspiring self-taught, who meritoriously haunt the night schools and free libraries with a view to improving their minds. If this had been his method, he might in one sense have been more difficult to handle, as Palford had seen the thing result in a bumptiousness most objectionable.
It is bitterly hard for us who have 1870 behind us." They feel that they should no longer be treated to such bumptiousness. I trust that I am no swashbuckler, but I have the greatest sympathy with the present Emperor in his capacity as war-lord, and in his insistent stiffening of Germany's martial backbone.
Once upon a time the world was ruled by men who were ruled by omens. Man was then not so wise in his own conceit. His own soul was nearer the soul of things. He was not a mere gob of bumptiousness covered with the shell of cocksureness. He was willing to be informed. He sought the omens of true nature he allowed Fate to guide him.
When the first sharpness of death had passed from Ansdore, Joanna's sanguine nature, her hopeful bumptiousness, revived.
He chose the latter, for the bumptiousness was chilled in him. This second attack on his tent made him tremble. "I am a marked man," said he. "Well, if I have enemies, the more need to get friends all round me."
If most of us had come of famous ancestry if our father were a vice-regal governor if the sovereign's favorite were our uncle, who intended us for his heir if a marriage were proposed with the beautiful daughter of the prime-minister, and we were ourselves young, handsome, and accomplished and all this were three hundred years ago, before the rights of men and the dignity of labor had been much discussed, we should probably have come up to Oxford, of which our famous uncle was chancellor, in a state of what would be called at Oxford to-day extreme bumptiousness.
"Of course it's eighteen months since I saw him; possibly he may have changed for the better, but at that time his bumptiousness certainly appeared to be on the increase. He had just left school then he must be nearly twenty now." "Oh quite old," said Norah. "What is he like?" "Pretty!" said Mr. Linton, wrinkling his nose. "As pretty as his name Cecil great Scott!
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