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"Then I am conditioned, am I?" said Will, his heart instantly sinking. "Most certainly." "What shall I have to do?" "Pass the examination." "But I have passed it! I passed this one!" declared Will promptly. Again the professor's scowl returned and his thin lips were tightly compressed as he said, "I fawncy it will not be necessary for me to repeat what I have already said.
"No, I fawncy it may in part be due to the thoughtlessness of youth and I would not be unduly harsh with you after your ample apology. Then you have been accustomed to hear me myself referred to as Splinter, have you?" "I yes that is " stammered Will. "Precisely. Now what in your opinion is the basis upon which the students have added such a derisive epithet to my name?"
If I'm to be shut out of the exam I mean the examination as you seem to think I will, anyway, I don't see any use in my trying any more." The expression on the professor's face became instantly harder as he said, "I fawncy the effort to curry favor with the various members of the faculty is not very popular with the student body." "Do you think I'm trying to 'boot-lick'?" demanded Will quickly.
"It won't be necessary for me to visit you in the morning," he said. The Captain fixed his glass. "Fawncy!" he exclaimed. "Anything you like!" Ned said. "Fawncy!" repeated the Captain. "As you please," Ned smiled. "Fawncy anything you like anything agreeable, you know." "And why won't you come to my office in the morning?" asked the Captain, with a tightening of his thin lips.
In his Greek that day Will failed miserably and completely, and his anger at Splinter was intensified when the professor near the close of the recitation said: "It is quite needless, I fawncy, for me to emphasize, young gentlemen, the necessity there is at the present time for you all to adopt the utmost care in all matters pertaining especially to your health.
It is true that since the days of the poet Gray there has been a tendency among English-speaking people to affect a veneration for the mountains, but it is, I fawncy, only a faint echo of the old Greek conception and is a purely superficial product of an extremely superficial age and people." "Didn't the Hebrews have a feeling like the one you tell of?
As you told me one day in the class 'I make Greek of it all. Perhaps not exactly the kind of Greek you want, though," Will added with a smile. "Ah, yes. I fawncy a trifle more of work would aid you." "Of course! I know it would! And that's what I'm willing to do and what I want to do, professor. But the trouble is I don't know just how to work." "I I fail to see precisely what you mean."
"I look upon that term as somewhat objectionable, but I fawncy in the vernacular of college life it is one that is quite expressive." "I'm not trying to boot-lick you or any other professor!" retorted Will, now feeling angry and insulted as well. "I didn't stay here to-day because I wanted to. You yourself asked me to do it. And I asked you a perfectly fair question.
"Very likely," rejoined her sister, "for I fancv their meal was made up of buckwheat cakes and molasses, as Sid had to pay for it." "Oh, I meant sheer deliciousness," corrected her sister. "I 'fawncy'" and she imitated the dainty tones used by Belle "they have had " "Backbiting and detraction," called Cora, who had been close enough to hear the sisters' remarks.
"That does not excuse it, but I fawncy the tendency among the young gentlemen of the college is to bestow appellations upon the various members of the faculty that are not warranted." "I have heard some of them spoken of in that way, but I don't think the fellows meant either to be disrespectful or unkind," said Will eagerly.
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