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During the first month of academic work, neither Dick nor Greg had stood as high in their class as they had wished. This is often the case with new second classmen, who have just returned from all the allurements and excitements of their furloughs. "Are you studying very hard, Anstey?" asked Greg, turning around, as the Virginian entered the door. "Not very," drawled the Virginian.
The feeling among the larger boys at Brienne at Napoleon's departure was much the same as that experienced by Joseph when his soon to-be- famous brother departed from Corsica. The smaller boys regretted his departure, since it had been one of their greatest pleasures to watch Napoleon disciplining the upper classmen, but Bonaparte was as glad to go as the elders were to have him.
Dean had called for her before all the big girls, and she had gone off with him, radiant, and he had actually made out her card for her, and taken three dances himself, and had presented such pleasant fellows first classmen and "yearlings." There was Mr. Billings, the cadet adjutant, and Mr.
And when at last the fires burned low and the final song was sung, and it was declared that the hatchet was buried forever and all feelings of animosity between the lower classmen were at an end, the boys returned to their rooms feeling that a well-earned victory had been won.
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.
Even then it was his first year in a military preparatory school he had shown his tendencies to develop as a featherweight champion. And this tendency had come near to ending his career. The military school was one of those in which the higher classmen treated the beginners rough. Johnny had resented this treatment and had been set upon by four husky lads in the darkness.
"And that was the very way that Prescott's horse was enraged, so that old ramrod got his awful tumble!" exclaimed Greg bitterly. "You believe, now, that the whole thing was a dirty, deliberate trick, don't you?" asked Spurlock of Prescott. "I am pretty sure it must have been," nodded Dick. "Then," declared Brayton, "the whole thing is something for you second classmen to settle among yourselves.
"Now, mister, stand on your head in that bowl," commanded Midshipman Eaton. Looking doubly red and uncomfortable, with these two grave-looking second classmen present, Flint bent down, attempting to stand on his head in the bowl of water, while he tried, at the same time to push his feet up the wall, thus standing on his head.
He went hammering away with marvelous industry, and felt sure, in his own mind, that he would be retired, in his sixties, an honored rear admiral. Had there been only book studies some of the first classmen would have broken down under the nervous strain.
"I had no intention of bringing him over for a soiree this evening, unless the plebe does something else raw in the meantime." A "soiree" is an institution of the summer encampment. The plebe who is in for a soiree may be either a man who has committed some direct offence against the upper classmen, or a plebe who has been observed to be simply too b.j. in general. Mr.
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