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I'm so fidgety I must talk or I'll shriek." "Well, you'll shut up just the same. Do you hear me?" I shut up, but my teeth chattered so that Tom stopped at the gate. "Look here, Nance, are you going to flunk? Say it now yes or no." That made me mad. "Tom Dorgan," I said, "I'll bet your own teeth chattered the first time you went in for a thing like this. I'm all right. You'll squeal before I do."
As the door closed softly behind her, Ethelwynne lifted her tear-wet face. "Agnes, do you think it was the pill that did it?" "Did what? Everything?" "Oh, no, no! Was it the pill that made me flunk in Latin?" "I don't know," she answered doubtfully, "perhaps it helped." "I want to say it was the pill. I want to believe it was the pill.
High-priced professors from the University of Leipzig and the École des Hautes Études are engaged to drill our teams to victory. Men who should have long ago taken their Ph.D. have been known deliberately to flunk examinations so as to be eligible for the 'varsity contests. Promising students in the preparatory schools are bribed to enroll with this or that college.
Very amusing were some of the attempts of the students to speak extemporaneously; the stammering, the hesitation, the confusion and final flunk; the confidence with which some one would spring to his feet, as if full to the muzzle, and the entire inconsequence and futility of his words, ending in apparent abject paralysis of speech.
A cat would have been too absurd when everybody knows the story." "I hope Sara won't mind carrying a live monkey across the stage," said Betty. "I should be dreadfully afraid it would bite." "She ought to have thought of that when she took the part," said Madeline. "She can't flunk now."
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