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"Now for a toast, gentlemen," said Mr. Bouncer. "May the Gown give the Town a jolly good hiding!" This was received with great applause, and the Putney Pet was dressed out in a gown and mortar-board, and the whole party then sallied out to battle.
The "corpus" was well guarded, on one occasion at least by eight juniors armed with bayonets, from the sophomores, who were infuriated by the fact that the head of the intended victim, a skull furnished from medical sources, was crowned by a mortar-board, the sophomore class insignia.
Lewisham felt a curious change of atmosphere on his entry. The door slammed behind him. The hall with its insistent scholastic suggestions, its yellow marbled paper, its long rows of hat-pegs, its disreputable array of umbrellas, a broken mortar-board and a tattered and scattered Principia, seemed dim and dull in contrast with the luminous stir of the early March evening outside.
This attitude I decided to maintain throughout the whole of my University career, notwithstanding that it was the first point on which my opinion had differed from that of my friend Dimitri. Yet, to tell the truth, my thoughts were already turning towards a uniform, a "mortar-board," and the possession of a drozhki of my own, a room of my own, and, above all, freedom of my own.
After dinner the Master, his mortar-board cap on his head, opened the drawing-room door and invited them to come across to the College Library to see some bronzes and a few other things that Mr. Davison had temporarily deposited there.
'One is to understand that the English language has these pretensions? he said: he minced in his manner, after the well-known mortar-board and tassel type; the mouthing of a petrifaction: clearly useless to the pleadings of the patriotic Dr. Bouthoin and his curate.
In fact, all the travelling Troupers who had worked for K. and E. referred to it as a Lime, which is the same as a Lemon, only smaller. The ambitious Bachelor of Arts had a lot of Geological Data and College Fraternity Lore stowed away under his Mortar-Board. So he resolved to hit the long Trail leading to a Modern Babylon where the Evening papers were on the Streets before Noon.
'One is to understand that the English language has these pretensions? he said: he minced in his manner, after the well-known mortar-board and tassel type; the mouthing of a petrifaction: clearly useless to the pleadings of the patriotic Dr. Bouthoin and his curate.
"Hi, you there!" cried a voice; "pick that up. What d'you mean by making that mess here?" The small boy grabbed up the bits of paper, stuffed them in his pocket, and hurried away towards the schoolroom. "Is that one of the masters?" asked Mugford. "No," answered Carton, "that's Oaks; he's one of the prefects. Don't you see he's got a blue tassel to his mortar-board?" "But what's a prefect?"
Horace accompanied him thither on the opening day of the term it was an inclement morning in January and left the young delicate sprig, apparently joyous and content, to the care of his masters and the mercy of his companions. But Sidney came home for dinner weeping weeping in spite of his new mortar-board cap, his new satchel, his new box of compasses, and his new books.
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