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He was old enough, it appeared, to have been the same thing as engaged to a person who was now a Married Woman. His manner thenceforth showed an added trace of seriousness and self-consideration. Having recovered his equipoise and something more, he entirely forgot that moment of humble admiration he had felt for Dora Yocum on the day of his flattest prostration.
Negative, 4 min., first. Affirm, 2 min., second. Affirmative Negative R. MILHOLLAND, '18 D. YOCUM, '18 Concluding his reading, which was oral, the volatile Mitchell made use of his voice in a manner of heathenish boisterousness, and presently reclined upon a lounge to laugh the better. His stricken comrade, meanwhile, recovered so far as to pace the floor.
Beyond a doubt, Dora and the teacher thought Lincoln belonged to them and their crowd of exclusives; they seemed to think they owned the whole United States; but Ramsey was sure they were mistaken about Abraham Lincoln. He felt that it was just like this little Yocum snippet to assume such a thing, and it made him sicker than ever to look at her.
"I'm goin' to pack up and light out for home!" he declared, over and over. And even oftener he read and reread the card to make sure of the actuality of that fatal coincidence, "D. Yocum, '18."
His expression at such times indeed resembled that of one who has dined unwisely; but Dora Yocum was always too eagerly busy to notice it. He was almost never in her eye, but she was continually in his; moreover, as the banner pupil she was with hourly frequency an exhibit before the whole class. Ramsey found her worst of all when her turn came in "Declamation," on Friday afternoons.
The bugles sounded across the continent; drums and fifes played up and down the city streets and in town and village squares and through the countrysides. Faintly in all ears there was multitudinous noise like distant, hoarse cheering... and a sound like that was what Dora Yocum heard, one night, as she sat lonely in her room.
This richly fed their humour, and they rioted round him, keeping outside the swinging books at the end of the strap. "Pers'nal appearance!"... "Who went and bought it for you, Wes?"... "Nobody bought it for him. Dora Yocum took and give him one!" "You leave ladies' names alone!" cried the chivalrous Wesley. "You ought to know better, on the public street, you pups!"
I didn't mean for you to come out of your way with me; I only wanted to get an answer to my question. You'd better be running back." "Well " He stood irresolute, not sure that he wanted his dinner just then. It would have amazed him to face the fact deliberately that perhaps he preferred being with Dora Yocum to eating. However, he faced no such fact, nor any fact, but lingered.
"Refutation by the negative. Miss D. Yocum. Two minutes." "I waive them," said Dora, primly. "I submit that the affirmative has not refuted the argument of the negative." "Very well." With his gavel the chairman sharply tapped the desk before him, "The question is now before the house.
Milholland, with the primmest air of speaking to the point "if this sort of thing must begin, I wish he might have selected some nice girl among the daughters of our own friends, like Dora Yocum, for instance." Upon the spot she began to undergo the mortification of a mother who has expected her son, just out of infancy, to look about him with the eye of a critical matron of forty-five.
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