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I am going to be Principal of Newnham one of these fine days, and run it on my own lines. No work, and every comfort breakfast in bed, and tea in the grounds nothing to do but wait upon me and pander to my wishes!" "I daresay! So like you, Tom! You would be a terror, and work the girls to death. You are never tired yourself, so you would keep them going till they dropped.
By tomorrow I suppose you will be paying me off and letting me go." "Let you go -before the road is running?" demanded Mr. Newnham, in astonishment. "Reade, have you noted any signs of my mind failing lately?" "I haven't, sir." "Then why should you imagine that I am going to let my chief engineer go before the road is in operations" "But I was acting chief, sir, only of the field work."
And, on the third reading of it, it was opposed again; but it was at length carried. The speakers against the bill were; Sir William Yonge, Lord Sheffield, Colonel Tarleton, Alderman Newnham, and Mr. Payne, Este, Lechmere, Cawthorne, Jenkinson, and Dent. Those who spoke in favour of it were; Mr. Pitt, Fox, William Smith, Whitbread, Francis, Burdon, Vaughan, Barham, and Serjeants Watson and Adair.
"You'll find me energetic enough, sir, I imagine, when the need for swift work comes." "Of course you couldn't foresee the coming of any such outrage as this," Mr. Newnham continued. "Oh, I rather guessed that this sort of thing was coming," Tom confessed. "You guessed it -and yet the camp has been left undefended?
"Very few other young men would have been equal to making the greatest and best use of what accident revealed," insisted Mr. Newnham warmly. Harry Hazelton came now, from the hole in the ground, to report that Dr. Gitney had done all he could for the comfort of poor young Reynolds.
But the happy blending of work and play which characterises Newnham life prevented industry from being carried to an exaggerated extent.
Her father is richer than ours, and he believes in higher education, so it's all settled that she is to go to Newnham, and she talks about it all the time, and pities me when she's in a good temper, and brags when she's not. And Dan would be at Cambridge, too, and Ralph Percival, and, oh dear, oh dear, we'd have such sport!
Newnham, waving a telegram. "Our first train, with passengers, has just left the station at Brand's Ranch junction, a hundred and ten miles away," shouted the president of the road. "The train should be here long before ten o'clock." From the crowd a cheer greeted the announcement. "There's nothing left but to wait to win," continued Mr. Newnham.
And so they got to Newnham and the pretty cottage with fair flowers outside and a fairer flower within. "This is Captain Dawe's house," said Johnnie. "I thank thee heartily. I can knock and introduce myself and mine errand, and leave thee free to go at once to the pretty maid in whose honour thou hast decked thyself so gallantly."
It was against this harsh and crude Staffordshire background that I think I must have seen Margaret for the first time. I say I think because it is quite possible that we had passed each other in the streets of Cambridge, no doubt with that affectation of mutual disregard which was once customary between undergraduates and Newnham girls.
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