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In an unbearable fit of restlessness, Falloden went out, passed Marmion, looked into the quad which was absolutely silent and deserted, and found his way aimlessly to the Parks. He must see Constance Bledlow, somehow, before the story reached her from other sources, and before everybody separated for the vac.
As he walked across the quad I saw that he had been having a rough time of it, for his clothes did not look as immaculate as usual. He was carrying an overcoat over his arm, and his shirt and collar had given way so badly that the first thing he did when he got into the room was to go to a looking-glass, and see how he could improve the appearance of things.
"Oh, my!" said Rosher; "how shall we get in? Everybody will be in bed. We shall have to knock up old Mullins at the lodge." "No fear," answered Jack. "We must get into Westford's garden, and from there into the quad; then we'll try some of the windows." The plan was carried out, and a few moments later the two boys were standing in the dark and deserted playground.
He looked gravely into Falloden's face. Falloden's eyes met his, and both men remembered momentarily the scene in Marmion Quad. "We must get him down," said Falloden abruptly. "And there is my mother." "I would help you to carry him, of course; but you see I can't." His delicate skin flushed deeply.
To begin with, the college never called her Pocahontas to her face, and no one would have found anything pat in the name until a long-remembered spring afternoon in her Freshman year. After that day, although her instructors still registered her as Hannah Grant Daly, she was generally known as "Pocahontas." Students with visitors would point her out in the Quad.
I said to Jack as I walked across the quad with him. "The only danger is that they may find out that he is rotting the whole lot of them. He overdid the thing to-night. Come and see Murray." We found Murray waiting to hear what had happened at the meeting, and from the account we gave him he said that it could not have gone off more successfully.
John the Baptist, is attractive, and the two college quadrangles are picturesque, the "Mob Quad," or library quadrangle, being five hundred years old, with the Treasury and its high-pitched ashlar roof and dormer windows above one of the entrance-passages. St. Alban Hall, built about 1230, adjoins Merton, and is a Gothic structure with a curious old bell-tower.
"You can just shut up jawing," I answered, as I hunted round for my gown; "when I want you to criticize my friends I will tell you. Foster's worth about ten billion of you any day." I was very angry, but Ward only laughed and told me to hurry up unless I wanted the soup to be cold. "We are going to have a little roulette in my rooms to-night," he said, as we walked across the quad.
Since that time great improvements have been made until now it is difficult to recognize in the delicate mechanisms of the relay, key, sounder, duplex, quad, and multiplex, the principle first promulgated in the old Morse register. Its influence was at once felt in all walks of life; it was an art to be an expert telegrapher.
A start of aversion appeared in his fancy to move them at sight of those other sons of the place, the form in the full-bottomed wig, statesman, rake, reasoner, and sceptic; the smoothly shaven historian so ironically civil to Christianity; with others of the same incredulous temper, who knew each quad as well as the faithful, and took equal freedom in haunting its cloisters.
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