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The aroma of the coffee filled the room. Jimmy polished his stein and a tumbler and poured for the two of them. "But for my principle never to bet on a sure thing, I'd take you," he answered calmly. He's a lobster, Pellams."
After fifteen minutes of impeccable behavior, Pellams whispered: "Say " "Silence!" "Well, I'd like to have some attention paid me. Call me down just to show that you're alive." She pointed to his History and subsided into her English Poets. When she came to earth again, the sun was low beyond the eucalyptus trees.
Katharine straightened and looked at him coolly. One of the girls gave a little gasp at his impertinence. "It isn't customary, I believe," said Katharine, "to ask to go driving with a girl you have met once, at a supper." "Isn't it?" faltered Pellams. There was not a vestige of his usual bravado about him.
"and the difference between me and a tank is in the inferior receptivity ain't that a peach? of the receptacle" "Now, the fallacy of the original proposition, as Herbert Spencer hath it, lies in the expression of the component particulars" this was Langdon "that proves that if I had a board Pellams would be summarily chastised" "Put it down and order up another, here's good drink going stale" "Whoa, Pegasus, old hoss, that's my tamale you have designs on" "and cut his name there" "sing it down!
A dozen feet were shuffling on the stones outside, and a ruddy face glowed over the sash. "Go away, Pellams. Got to plug," said Jimmie, hastily resuming his book. "Relate your predicaments to a constable," said Pellams. "There's going to be a Thirsting Bee at the " "Can't go. Got to work on my thesis." "Relate that to your Uncle Adderclaws. Tumble out, now." Jimmie only shook his head.
Then, in a rest, Pellams got to his side with a bottle of ice-cold Pilsener and Tom pointed its base to the sky and gained courage.
The autumn rains came and the dry, sniffly dust of the campus lay flat under the quiet air; the clear, fall weather that is mixed in one's mind with the pungent smell of tarweed in the pasture lands, and with long exciting afternoon practices, hung cool over the land, and still Pellams went girling, with his beautiful joke on the college. Katharine's secret joke on him had succeeded equally well.
Gentlemen adventurers" here Pellams mounted a chair "James Mason, our small but thirsty friend, has sourball. Now, I ask you, gentlemen, what is the universal cure for his affliction?" "Beer!" The unanimity of the response would have done credit to a Roman mob. "Quite right ye are, my merry retainers. And will ye, in loving kindness to him, apply that remedy?" "We will! We will!"
She was not present during the afternoons of real, quiet study which were forced out of him between luncheon and football practice. By the time their contract, renewed from week to week, had been operating for two months, Pellams began to wonder just where the point of the joke came in. People had become used to the condition.
She was not surprised, then, when Miss Meiggs turned more fully toward the woman-hater. "Tell me, are you one of these people who think co-education an evil?" "I'm afraid I am." The speech gave Pellams a certain pleasure.
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