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This opened the eyes of the Dons, who thereupon ceased firing; and as a light breeze had now set down, they immediately made sail in pursuit of a schooner that had watched the opportunity of their being employed with us to run in under the walls, and was at this moment chased by a ship and a gun-boat, who had got within gun-shot and kept up a brisk fire on her.
"I breaks it to him short and straight. "'Captain Caryll's compliments, sir, says I. 'And he's dead. "Nelson claps his hands to his face as though I'd struck him. Then he falls on my neck afoor em all Dons too. "'O Ding-dong! says he. 'I loved him. Just like that. 'I loved him.... "Yes, that was Nelson all through: one alf woman, t'other alf hero. "Then he pulls himself together.
There is no safer spot on all the lower river than this; if the Dons discover it, no way of escape exists even were we all awake and ready. To remain quiet is all we can do, and how can we accomplish that better than by going to sleep? Sacre!
Terrae Filius, who lashes the dons for covetousness, greed, dissipation, rudeness, and stupidity, often corroborates the Puritan's report about the bad manners of the undergraduates. Yet Oxford, then as now, did not lack her exquisites, and her admirers of the fair. Terrae Filius thus describes a "smart," as these dandies were called Mr.
"Where does he expect to go to?" he said solemnly. "Theo thinks," said his mother, "that a first class is not everything in the world as it is in the University." "But my dear Mrs. Warrender! that is precisely one of the things that ladies never understand." "I have no chance of one, so I agree with Warrender," said Dick. "The Dons will bother, but what does that matter?
It cared little for joy, leisure, beauty or tradition. Its God was money and its occupation was business. This thing called business was utterly strange to the Delcasars and to all of the other Dons. They were men of the saddle, fighting men, and traders only in a primitive way.
The little dons who career about Oxford afoot and awheel, wearing old gowns and mortarboards, giggling over Spooner's latest, and being tremendous "characters" in the intervals of concocting the ruling-class mind, had turned my mind away from such matters altogether.
And if a Fast was not an occasion offered to them, how was a Fast an occasion offered to him to fall upon the same controversy first, and when none had dons the like before him.
Ten seconds later, every man on the galleon's decks, from George downward, was shouting the fine old song at the top of his voice, the melody going far out over the water and causing the haughty Dons on the galley's poop to stare in amazement. Almost at the same instant the galley's culverin spoke again.
"Let us then consider the matter as settled, so far as we are concerned, Harry," said Roger; "and let us pledge each other to sail together; to stand by each other through thick and thin, through fair and foul; to share all dangers; and to divide equally all plunder that we may obtain from the rascally Dons.
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