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But "roughing it" a little is sometimes good for girls as well as boys. In her own western home Ann could have held her own with anybody. She was so much out of her usual element here at Briarwood that she was like a startled hare. She scented danger on all sides. Her roommates could not always defend her, although even Mercy, the unmerciful, tried. Ann Hicks was so big, and blundering.
In the cell directly opposite were two bruised and tattered inmates where there should have been but one, and that one undismantled. The sheriff surveyed the wreckage within. His jaw dropped; his face went red to the hair; his lip trembled as he pointed to the larger of the two roommates, who was, beyond doubting, Amos Poole or some remainder of him.
The wallet he recognized at once, for he had more than once seen Socrates take it out of his pocket. "It's old Sock's wallet!" he said to himself. "It's clear that Jim has taken it, and means to have it found in Roscoe's possession. That's as mean a trick as I ever heard of." Just then Wilkins entered the room. Wilkins and Ben Platt were Hector's two roommates. "Hello, Wilkins!
And she doesn't visit ruins and art galleries in Europe, but a huge circle of loving relatives, who pass her around from farm to farm for months, while she does amateur business agent work for the steamship lines, talking up the wonders of America and allow me to blush the saintliness of her employers, and coming blithely back home in the fall with three or four old childhood chums for roommates.
Soon our Consul-General Torbet arrived, and assured me he would see that I should be treated with every consideration until such time as the unfortunate mistake was corrected. That night I slept at the hotel with Curtin and his two companions for roommates. Mr.
Anstey took his roommate in hand, gently and genially, and tried to make that new cadet for Bert had passed his academic exams. without even a hint of trouble understand how worse than foolish it would be to attempt to antagonize the upper class men. "You come from the same place that Prescott and Holmes do, don't you?" asked Anstey, one afternoon, as the roommates rested from study.
From her own experience and observation during the years already past, she was particularly interested in the different pairs of roommates who came within the scope of her daily trips. In a certain double lived two freshmen, one of whom always greeted her with, "Oh, thank you!" whether the mail was addressed to her or to her roommate.
Warren had always talked and written to her a great deal about him. Chic and he had been roommates in college, and ever since had kept in close touch with each other by letter.
The elder and larger of the two was a rather coarse-looking youth of seventeen. His name was Bartlett Cloud, shortened by his acquaintances to "Bart" for the sake of that brevity beloved of the schoolboy. His companion, Wallace Clausen, was a handsome though rather frail-looking boy, a year his junior. The two were roommates and friends.
"Whose?" asked Dunk, suspiciously. "Kittie Martin's. She's the one you picked out for me; isn't she?" "Yes, and I wish you'd stick to her!" and with this Dunk tumbled into bed and did not talk further. Andy put out the light with a thoughtful air, and did not try to carry on the conversation. It was as near to a quarrel as the roommates had come since the affair of Burke's.
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