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Updated: September 6, 2025
She was thinking that she loved Margaret France, that she had taken a fancy to her the first evening at Newnham. How droll and witty she had been as an auctioneer! Of the purport of her present words she had no comprehension. She sighed and turned her face to the river. "Leave her to me," said Dan's voice quietly. "I will take care of her."
Alderman Newnham presented one from certain merchants in London; Alderman Watson another from certain merchants, mortgagees, and creditors of the sugar-islands; Lord Maitland another from the planters of Antigua; Mr. Blackburne another from certain manufacturers of Manchester; Mr.
One question haunts her waking and sleeping hours; one problem embitters the most social occasions `Shall I be comfortable or polite? To this question, in this college of Newnham, there can, ladies, be but one reply and the wretched hostess sits on the coal-box and gives her visitor the chair.
Contrary to her expectation, the subject of Ralph's troubles was avoided rather than sought, and it was only on the eve of her departure to Newnham that mother and sisters broke the silence to urge in each case the same request "See as much of Ralph as you can during these next six months! Have a little talk with Ralph now and again! Show an interest in his work. Let him see that you care.
Girls catch the infection of slang; and thus, while sweet young ladies are leading beautiful lives at Girton and Newnham, their sisters of society are learning to use a language which is a frail copy of the robust language of the drinking-bar and the racecourse.
He told every one of the insomnia and no one of his doubts; these he betrayed only by an increasing tendency towards vagueness, symbolism, poetry and toleration. Eleanor seemed satisfied with his exposition; she did not press for further enlightenment. She continued all her outward conformities except that after a time she ceased to communicate; and in September she went away to Newnham.
My uncle and I caught the coach at the top of the hill, at the door of the old inn opposite the church. The coachman had a hot drink handed up to him, and the ostlers hitched up the new team. The last that I saw of Newnham was the great house at the corner.
Newnham, is entitled to protection from the state, of course. The state, however, will be able to reply that the authorities were not notified, and could not send protection to us." "But we have a telegraph running from here out into the world!" cried the man from Broadway way, wheeling like a flash.
"You take it mighty easily," murmured President Newnham. "A chief may, if he has the sense to know how to work his subordinates," Tom continued. "I don't believe, sir, that you'll find any fault with the way matters have gone forward." "Let me see the latest reports," urged Mr. Newnham. "Certainly, sir, if you'll come into the head-quarters tent."
Half an hour later the two girls slowly wended their way past the tower gateway of Trinity, past Caius, with its twinkling lights, stately King's, and modest Catherine's, to the homelike shelter of their own dear Newnham. "Well!" cried Hannah, breaking a long silence, "you had a big success and I had not! But you're not a bit happier than I, that I can see. Men are poor, blind bats.
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