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And that they might be more together West had lately made a proposition. "That fellow Sproule is a regular cad, Joel, and I tell you what we'll do. After Christmas you move over to Hampton and room with me. You have to make an application before recess, you know. What do you say?" "I should like to first rate, but I can't pay the rent there," Joel had objected.
"We must have names for things, you know," she said. "I suppose so, where morality and humanity have to be taught as Christian duty, and not as common manhood." "Tell me," she presently said, "about Sproule, the postmaster." "Oh, that? Well, I will. The first time I entered the post-office I saw there was something on the man's mind.
Perhaps I could have him up to stay a few days with me next summer. He'd be glad to come. "No, my roommate, Sproule, doesn't improve any on acquaintance. But I've got so I don't mind him much. I don't think he's really as mean as he makes you believe. He's having hard work with his studies nowadays, and has less time to find fault with things. "You ask how I spend my time.
He lived at Salina, or Salt Point, which is now a part of Syracuse; and was always, in his talk to me, daring the captain to discharge him, and threatening to get a job in the salt Works at Salina if ever he quit the canal. He seemed to think this would spite Captain Sproule very much.
To-day the Aeneid lost much of its interest, and when the recitation was over Joel clapped his new brown felt hat on his head for West had conducted him to the village outfitter the preceding day and hurried up to his room to leave his book and pad. "Dickey" Sproule was stretched out upon the lounge a piece of personal property of which he was very proud reading Kenilworth.
Captain Sproule had carried me aft from the drivers' cabin to his own while I was in a half-unconscious condition, and out of pure pity, I suppose; but that was the last soft treatment I ever got from him. He came into the cabin just as I was thinking of getting up, and sternly ordered me forward to my own cabin. I had nothing to carry, and it was very little trouble to move.
There was actual danger in this unless the steersman happened to be really steering, and laid the boat off so as to miss me. Captain Sproule gazed at me in disgust. Ace laughed loudly away out ahead on the horse. Bill said that if it had been in the middle of the ocean I never would have been shamed by being hauled up on deck. He was sorry for my sake, as I never would live this thing down.
B. Kirschofer is senior partner in the firm of Kirschofer & Kraus, of the Bargain Emporium. Miss Sproule is the daughter of Alexander Sproule, proprietor of the Agony Parlors, three floors up." "Agony Parlors?" queried the visitor. "Painless dentistry," explained Wayne. "Mr. Shearson handles all that matter and sends it down to us."
"Because when you get him away from Cloud," said West, "Clausen's not a bad sort, you know." Richard Sproule was suspended for the balance of the fall term, and was no longer monitor of his floor. Perhaps the heaviest punishment was the amount of study he was required to do in order to return after Christmas recess, entailing as it did a total relinquishment of Mayne Reid, Scott, and Cooper.
Joel sat there on the steps, under the shadow of the dark building, thinking of many things, and feeling very happy and peaceful, until a long, shrill sound from the north told of the coming of the 9.48 train; then he made his way back to Masters, up the dim stairs, and into his room, where Dickey Sproule lay huddled in bed reading The Three Guardsmen by the screened light of a guttering candle.
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