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Depositing his hat then on the floor, smoothing his hair, and hitching up his smalls, and striving most laboriously not to grin till he should have cause, stood Tim, like "Giafar awaiting his master's award!" "Tim!" said Harry Archer. "Sur!" said Tim. "Tim! Mr. Forester and I are talking of going up to-morrow what do you say to it?"
One thirty " Then Eddie begun to raise his hand, but 'twas too late. "One thirty-three and SOLD! To Mr. Milo Thompson for one hundred and thirty-three dollars!" And just then come a shriek from the piazza; the Duchess and "Irene dear" had come out of the parlor. Well! Talk about crowing! The way that Thompson crowd rubbed it in on the Smalls was enough to make you leave the dinner table.
Dodd contrived to sigh interrogatively. Julia, who understood her every accent, reminded her that "smalls" was the new word for "little go." "What does it all mean?" inquired mamma, "'gooseberry pie'? and 'the snaffle'? and 'ploughed' ?" "Well, the gooseberry pie is really too deep for me: but 'ploughed' is the new Oxfordish for 'plucked. O mamma, have you forgotten that?
The fit of a hunting-coat, the pace of a horse, were things of more importance, but he scraped through his "Smalls" and his "Mods," and was considered by his friends to be anything but a fool. As for his mother the Lady Henrietta Verdayne she thought him a god among men!
In the front of the stage stands Napoleon, wearing a long sword and cocked hat, and the conventional gray smalls his hand of course stuck in his breast. At his right are Tippoo Saib and his sons, and at his left, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
On the Republican side were Aldrich, Conger, Frye, Hawley, and Lapham, qualifying themselves for service in the Senate; the burly Robeson, ready to defend his acts as Secretary of the Navy; Judge Kelley, of Philadelphia, who had come down from a former generation; Rainey and Smalls, emancipated men and brethren; the witty Tom.
When she got off her bed to go down to lunch she felt as if only one thing could do her good, and that was to have Val home. He her eldest boy who was to go to Oxford next month at James' expense, was at Littlehampton taking his final gallops with his trainer for Smalls, as he would have phrased it following his father's diction. She caused a telegram to be sent to him.
At this climax even Mrs. Dodd took a gentle share in the youthful enthusiasm that was boiling around her, and her soft eyes sparkled, and she returned the fervid pressure of her daughter's hand; and both their faces were flushed with gratified pride and affection. "Dodd!" broke in "the incongruous dog," with a voice just like a saw's. "Dodd? Ah, that's the man who is just ploughed for smalls."
But both Mrs. Green and Miss Virginia Green were more than consoled when their beloved boy returned home about midsummer with a slip of paper on which was written and printed: GREEN, VERDANT, È. Coll. AEn. Fac. Quiæstionibus Magistrorum Scholarum in Parviso pro forma respondit. In other words, Mr. Verdant Green had got through his Smalls. But, sad to say, poor Mr. Bouncer had been plucked. Mr.
Edward's letter was short enough, and Mrs. Dodd allowed Julia to read it to her, which she did with panting breath, and glowing cheeks, and a running fire of comments. "'Dear Mamma, I hope you and Ju are quite well " "Ju," murmured Mrs. Dodd plaintively. "'And that there is good news about papa coming home. "'Cramming, love?" "Yes, that is the Oxfordish for studying." " For smalls." Mrs.
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