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No, I've not wasted my substance in riotous living, nor have I eaten husks, but I've been prodigal in wasting opportunities." "Lost a whole college year, haven't you?" I asked. "I hope not. There is a German university man at La Paz who has been coaching me. He thinks if I keep at work until after Christmas I can go on with my old class.
Her book-learning is all right if she keeps it to herself, and don't let it get mixed up with her duties 'long of me. And right here, Mr. Gaston," Jude choked miserably, "I guess her and me don't want no coaching from you. No harm intended, understand, but just a clean showing."
'Here's luck to roads and coaches, and them as lives by 'em. They'll miss the old coaching system some day mark my word. I don't hold with these railways they're talkin' about all steam and hurry-scurry; it starves the country. 'Quite right, Jonathan, says Starlight, throwing his leg over Rainbow, and chucking the old groom a sovereign.
In his regiment, as in the well-disciplined regiments of any state, the officers and enlisted men must live apart." "But Hollins claimed that Rix was a man of good birth and education, and that he was coaching him for a commission," interposes one of the group. "That was an afterthought, and had no bearing on the case anyway.
He remembered the day when Mark had been coaching the football team and had told them that they must not stop for anything when they were in action. If they thought their legs were broken, or they were mortally wounded and dying, they must not even think of it.
Barleyfield led him through this garden to a side-door, whence they passed into a roomy, low-ceilinged parlour which reminded Viner of old coaching prints he would scarcely have believed it possible that such a pre-Victorian room could be found in London. There were several men in it, and he nudged his companion's elbow. "Let us sit down in a quiet corner and have something to drink," he said.
"I know what they thought. But I don't care! I should do it right over again!" Mrs. Milray's happiness in the day's triumph was so great that she could indulge a generous emotion. She caught the girl in her arms. "I want to kiss you; I want to hug you, Clementina!" The notion of a dance for the following night to celebrate the success of the house in the coaching parade came to Mrs.
Meantime he listened, really interested, except that his fleshy head was too full of alcohol and his own project to contain additional statistics concerning coaching.
Roger came near turning his attempted sacrifice into a hit, but Sanger managed to get the ball and whip it to first in time to catch the runner by a margin of the closest sort. "That's playing the game, all right," cried Nelson from the coaching line. "Here's where we score." "In your mind," derided Copley.
Now and then he had had a chat; but Arthur had such a painful way of getting into awkward topics that such conferences were usually short and formal. He had occasionally given an oversight to the boy's work; but Arthur so greatly preferred to "mug," as he called it, in his own study, that opportunities for serious private coaching had been quite rare.
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