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Not a word would he or did he say about his severe defeat, but systematically he went to work to master "the noble art of self-defense," and two years from that time the corps was treated to a sensation. Loring, back from cadet furlough, had been made first sergeant of Company "D," in which as a private and first classman was the very cadet who had so soundly thrashed him. Loring proved strict.
When at West Point a certain upper classman had once pulled his nose and, regardless of consequences, he had knocked the fellow down and dragged him by the heels through the dirt of the road. He had considered himself justified in his actions, and his whole class has stood by him. That being so, he did not have it in his heart to punish Jack, or even to find fault with him.
So Dave went off to meet Belle and her mother, while Dan Dalzell hunted up another first classman who also believed that the girls didn't particularly esteem him. That other fellow was Midshipman Jetson. "Mrs. Davis is giving a lawn party this afternoon," announced Dave, after he had lifted his cap in greeting of Mrs. Meade and her daughter. "I have an invitation from Mrs.
In the academy itself, every first classman should be required in turn to serve as petty officer and officer; his ability to discharge his duties as such should be a prerequisite to his going into the line, and his success in commanding should largely determine his standing at graduation.
Every first classman in the room felt certain that Darrin had entered for the express purpose of saying something of consequence. But Dave did not speak at first. Advancing only a short distance into the hall he stood with arms folded, his face well-nigh expressionless. For a moment the class president glanced at Darrin, then at the assemblage.
It was his opinion that James K. Farnum was the last person he knew likely to remain a nobody. He knew how to conform, to take the color of his thinking from the dominant note of his environment, but he had, too, a capacity for leadership. "I'm not going to believe you if I can help it," Jeff answered with a smile. The upper classman shrugged. "You'd better take my advice, just the same.
"What is this a despair meeting?" he called cheerily. "We're in a blue funk over the way recitations are going." "Oh, buck up, kiddies!" called Freeman cheerily, as he crossed the floor. "Youngsters always get in the doldrums at the beginning of the year." "You're a first classman. When you were in the third class did you have all the studies that we have now?"
It was pleasant to sit there in the semi-gloom. But presently he began to wonder, a little, that none of the fellows dropped around for a chat, for he was aware that a number of the first classmen were not booked for the hop that night. From time to time Dick saw a first classman enter or leave the tent of Cadet Jordan. "He seems unusually popular to-night," thought Prescott, with a smile.
His fine presence, his gentle, courteous manners and kindly smile put them at once at ease with him. Among the cadets at this time were my eldest brother, Custis, who graduated first in his class in 1854, and my father's nephew, Fitz. Lee, a third classman, besides other relatives and friends.
Belle, entirely at her ease, did not appear to be affected by the battery of Mr. Treadwell's gaze. Then good breeding required that the first classman make another bow and stroll away. As he left, Treadwell murmured in Dare's ear: "Don't forget that dance, Darry! Two if there is any show." Midshipman Darrin nodded slightly.
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