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Updated: June 28, 2025
A sheet of paper always infolded the bank-notes. It always bore, in fine but sexless tracery, "From one who owes you much." There, that was it, that sentence, which, like a locomotive, bore the General and his wife far on these firsts of the month to two opposite points of the horizon, in fact, one from the other "From one who owes you much."
"Get us three firsts to King's Crawss, and 'ave a label ready to smudge on the winder, w'ile me an' my girl gets 'im through to the platform, nice and cushy." Supported on each side, with flaccid legs just able to move in turn, Melchard was guided to a bench some way down the platform, and seated between two bolstering forms to which the contact was disgusting.
We was goin' to jine farms and I was goin' to live over to her place, because it wouldn't be so pleasant here with Mis' Gammon " He hesitated, and ducked despondent head in the direction of the front yard. "Well, seconds don't usually want to set in the front parlor window and read firsts' epitaphs for amusement," remarked Hiram, grimly. "What then?"
Two of the boys are wearing your Melton overcoat; I hope you don't mind." "It's a new overcoat," said Latimer, with every indication of minding dreadfully. "You'll take every care of Hartlepool's Wonder, won't you?" said Vera. "His mother took three firsts at Birmingham, and he was second in the cockerel class last year at Gloucester. He'll probably roost on the rail at the bottom of your bed.
He used to get what they call firsts and double firsts every week! Margaret could not help laughing, and even Lushington smiled in his agony. 'It was splendid, said the young girl, looking at him. 'Did you really get a double first? Lushington nodded. 'One? screamed Madame Bonanni. 'Twenty, I tell you! A hundred 'No, no, mother, interrupted Lushington. No one can get more than one.
We could not help doing well in the schools, because we always had scholars who took Firsts with beautiful regularity; but no one thought very much about it, since it was a thing to which every one in the 'Varsity was accustomed. Even Fred Foster told me that it was a pity St. Cuthbert's was going downhill so fast; but apart from being angry there was nothing for me to do, except wait.
"But, Aunt Beatrice, they say I can't. They say I'm not clever enough." "Oh, that's what they say, is it?" Lady Thomson smiled in calm but deep contempt. "How do they explain the idiots who have got Firsts? Archibald Toovey, for instance?" Her eyes met her niece's, and both smiled. "Ah, yes! Mr.
In 1826 Francis Newman took first-class honours in classics and mathematics, and gained a Fellowship in Balliol College. The college authorities described his as one of the best "Double Firsts" ever known. As, however, he felt conscientiously unable to sign the Thirty-nine Articles, he was obliged to resign his Fellowship, and could not take his M.A. degree.
Then appeal to some one who has assigned the seat of the soul to some gland or to the heart or somewhere else, and ask him where affection and thought therefrom are in their firsts, whether they are not in the brain? and he will answer, No, or that he does not know. Such as life is in its first principles, such it is in the whole and in every part.
In a word, there are such degrees in every outmost, thus in every effect. For every outmost consists of things prior and these of their firsts.
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