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"You should have thought of the boys. Michael's growing up; so is Nicky." "Nicky is fifteen; Ronny is eleven, if you call that growing up." "That's all very well, but when Nicky is twenty-one and Ronny is seventeen what are you going to do?" "I'm not going to turn Ronny out of doors for fear Nicky should fall in love with her, if that's what you mean."
There's something about her that inspires confidence in the breasts of timid freshies." "She is the dearest girl on earth." Ronny spoke with sudden tenderness. "Are you going out on the campus to parade? I am not particularly anxious to go." "Then we won't go, for I don't care about it, either." A double rapping on the door sent Jerry scurrying to it.
As the time went on the voices were none so loud, but still he could hear, and it was Ronny McKinnon that was speaking most, and the tale that came to McCook was this: "There would be folk at the South End," said Ronald, "bien folk of his own name some of them, and the harvest was very good for this year, and there would be a considerable of spirit and salt to be taken across quietly.
Marjorie and Ronny happened to be the last of the little procession. The former bore in mind her chief object in coming-to the station and kept a sharp lookout for freshmen.
But Nicky it was Ferdie I saw. He stood by the door and looked at me. Like he does, you know." The next morning Frances had a letter of two lines from Veronica's mother: "Ferdie died last evening at half past eight. "He wants you to keep Ronny.
Like some loving dog, who, ordered home, sneaks softly on through alleys and by-ways, peeping round corners and crouching behind lamp-posts, the faithful Freddie had followed him after all. And with him, to add the last touch to Derek's discomfiture, were those two inseparable allies of his, Ronny Devereux and Algy Martyn.
It was just His way of bringing Ronny's punishment back to you. You see, Jeff, Ronny was part of you. You said so. And oh, He's wiser than you an' me. And He figures this thing is best so. It's a little Cross, such a teeny one, He's set you to bear, and if you're the man I know and believe in, why, you'll just carry it without a squeal. Then later you'll understand, and you'll be real glad for it.
Your pal, Underhill, has broken off his engagement with Jill Mariner." "I know; rather rotten, what!" "Rotten? I should say so! It isn't done. I mean to say, chap can't chuck a girl just because she's lost her money. Simply isn't on the board, old man!" "Lost her money? What do you mean?" Ronny was surprised. Hadn't Freddie heard? Yes, absolute fact. He had it from the best authority.
You know what it was like when you used to sit looking and looking at Mother's "tree of Heaven." It's odd, Ronny, to have gone all your life trying to get reality, trying to get new beauty, trying to get utter satisfaction; to have funked coming out here because you thought it was all obscene ugliness and waste and frustration, and then to come out, and to find what you wanted. June 25th.
"You forget basket ball," reminded Muriel. "I am going to try to forget it," retorted Ronny so wearily that her tone elicited a chorus of giggles. "I don't play the game, thank my stars!" "I shall, if I have a chance," Muriel asserted. "How about you, Marjorie?" "I am going to try for a place on the team this year," Marjorie announced in a purposeful manner. "I hope we get a fair try-out.
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