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Next she swept aside a froth of crisp tissue-paper which was still veiling the gift. Then together they looked down. "O-o-o-o-h!" It was a chorus. Roses! Pink roses! A very pile of them, snuggling in the cool, delicate greenery of ferns! Up from them lifted a fragrance that rivaled even that of orris root. Cis leaned to breathe.
"Why should we do anything to the plebes? And yet, in a trusting moment, we elected old ramrod to be president of the class! Why should we -o-o-o-o-h!" Cadet Furlong made a gurgling sound in his throat, as though he were perishing for lack of air. "Prescott isn't serious," hinted Griffin. "Yes, I am," contended Dick, half stubbornly. "Griffin, what did you think of yearlings -last year?"
What passed in that single heart none can tell for certain but his Creator; nor what was uttered in that deplorable cry; love, sorrow, perplexity, dismay all these perhaps, and something of prayer for still he lifted his sorrowful face toward heaven as he cried out in sore perplexity, distress, and fear for his poor master oh! o-o-o-h! o-o-o-o-h! o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-h!
O-o-o-o-h! it's once I froze the end of my nose, On the coast of Labrador, sir, An' I lost my smell, an' my taste as well, An' my pipe, which made me roar, sir; But the traders come, an' think wot they done! They poked an' pinched an' skewered me; They cut an' snipped, an' they carved an' ripped, An' they clothed an' fed an' cured me. Chorus. Hooroo! it's true An' a sailor's life for me.
The whole room filled with a swelling conglomerate "O-O-O-O-H!" As for Penrod himself, the walls reeled with the shock. He sat with his mouth open, a mere lump of stupefaction. For the appalling words that he had hurled at the teacher were as inexplicable to him as to any other who heard them. Nothing is more treacherous than the human mind; nothing else so loves to play the Iscariot.
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