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I saw I must be extremely hold-off in my relations; and yet not too much so neither; for if I had no right to appear at all in the character of a suitor, I must yet appear continually, and if possible agreeably, in that of host. It was plain I should require a great deal of tact and conduct, perhaps more than my years afforded.
"She won't be such a fool as not to come now that fellow's gone!" he thought, and he was right, for a few moments later she was there. "So you did come?" "I am here," Joan said quietly. "You wish to speak to me?" "Don't be so confoundedly hold-off! Aren't you going to shake hands?" "Certainly not!" "Oh, very well!" he snarled. "Don't then. Still putting on your airs, my lady!"
Here Freshmen might smoke their pipes in safety a privilege denied them on the street and debate upon their affairs. Who were hold-off men! My dear Professor Blank, could you hear yourself described by these young cubs through their tobacco smoke, your learned ears, so alert for dactyl and spondee, would grow red. Do Scott's boys, I wonder, still gather clothes for pressing around the Campus?
I saw I must be extremely hold-off in my relations; and yet not too much so neither; for if I had no right to appear at all in the character of a suitor, I must yet appear continually, and if possible agreeably, in that of host. It was plain I should require a great deal of tact and conduct, perhaps more than my years afforded.
'I will come back to you soon, mamma, she said, and she put her hand on his arm, and moved away with him. 'The fact is, said he, 'I don't like much being introduced to strangers. Most girls stare at you so, with a sort of hold-off air, and it is so difficult to get on pleasant and friendly terms with them. 'I should not have thought you were so shy, said Nan, with an honest laugh.
You can save me if you like, or you can hold-off and let me go to prison. There's no good preaching about it or arguing about it; you've got the choice and you must make it. Most young women in your place would think themselves uncommon lucky to have such a chance as you've got, instead of making a trouble about it, let alone being able to get their father out of a scrape.
I saw I must be extremely hold-off in my relations; and yet not too much so neither; for if I had no right to appear at all in the character of a suitor, I must yet appear continually, and if possible agreeably, in that of host. It was plain I should require a great deal of tact and conduct, perhaps more than my years afforded.
He said he'd seen so many women that throwed theirselves at him and interfered with his movements that the hold-off sort was just what he was looking for.
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