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There was a moment's silence while the two Freshers each mentally leaped a year ahead, and saw herself in this proud and enviable position. "Who's the one to-night?" "Margaret France." Miss Ross's lips curled expressively. "I hope you won't judge us by her standard. She's certainly not the one whom I should have chosen to fill the position!"
She held out the kettle at the length of a bare white arm, and raised her clear voice in delightful imitation of the professional wheedle. "Friends and Freshers! We now come to Lot Three, one of the most striking and interesting on the catalogue. A kettle, ladies, is always a useful article, but this is no ordinary kettle.
There were two or three freshers from Cliborough to whom I had scarcely spoken during my last two years at school, and these fellows all sat together and enjoyed themselves, while I counted for nothing whatever. I began to learn the lesson that being in the Cliborough XI. and XV. was not a free passport to glory.
What good did come from my first crusade was due chiefly to him; a kind of revivalist spirit was upon him, and many unsuspecting freshers who had only thought of the river as a place to avoid, were unable to resist his entreaties. The dons heard of my crusade, and I know that Mr. Edwardes did not like it, but I had two of them on my side, and the others did not take any active measures against me.
The first few minutes after their arrival were rather an ordeal to the two Freshers, who had never before been present at such a gathering, and felt themselves the cynosure of every eye; but the kindness of host and hostess soon put them at their ease. A fair sprinkling of college men were in the room, handing round tea and cakes to the guests.
At Upsala he always fraternised with the new arrivals, that is to say, when they were members of aristocratic families, and the freshers felt flattered by the advances made by the older man. In this way he formed many useful ties, which meant invitations to his friends' country houses during the summer. The country houses were his happy hunting ground.
"Will you come?" "No, I won't," I answered, and I let him go into the hall first, and as soon as he had chosen his seat I got as far from him as I could. I saw him talking to Collier, and they seemed to be amused, which did not lessen my annoyance. If the freshers' wine had been held on that evening, I am very nearly sure that I should not have gone to it.
The Freshers' Wine became an organized institution and ceased to be a sort of "hole and corner" entertainment, at which every one made a most horrible noise because they ought not to have made any at all. In my spare time, and I had not much, I caught myself regretting that I had ever been stupid enough to carry on long battles with Mr.
She betrayed no embarrassment at being discovered in so compromising a position, but smiled a broad smile of welcome out of the mirror, the while she continued to turn and to twist, and hold up a hand-glass to scrutinise more closely unknown aspects of face and head. "I know what you've come for! I've had two Freshers already. Bowled over at the thought of inventing a costume that's it, isn't it?
"I'm fairly in love with you, Coalheaver," Dennison said. "Naturally, but you might forget that very witty name." "I'm going," Lambert declared, "for I'm dining in hall, and if I don't go for a walk those kromeskis and quenelles will choke me." "Half a minute," and Ward pushed Lambert back into his seat; "now we are all here, I think we had better arrange a freshers' wine.
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