Word: victims
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University. There he stands at the head of the steps. It is not quite time for recitation, but he has come over early for a purpose all his own. He is reading the notices on the bulletin board, - a very strange thing to do, - while he waits for a victim. He looks innocent as he stands there, but it is the innocence of a spider that is waiting...
...Venus, grant a victim's tears...
...sink a victim...
...shakes into an appearance of order his tumbled bed. He remonstrates at first with her, but soon perceives, from her oaths, perhaps, that even a Goody has no respect for a Freshman; still he is comforted by the vain hope that he will soon receive a visit from that victim of a task too great for human powers, who is supposed to be able to superintend a force of twenty five or thirty shiftless, shirking women, who have to do their work in three hundred rooms. Even if he is ever visited, he finds a single complaint...
...pistol, and-with a charming insouciance shot the other through the heart. Several gentlemen then appeared from the shops around, and congratulated the jovial sportsman on his good shooting, taking him into a cafe where they did not drink coffee on the lucus a non lucendo principle. The victim of this practical joke was removed about an hour afterwards by his friends, who had the pleasure of seeing the other man carried home by his companions of the cafe, with many marks of regard. No, really on the whole, my first impression was not favorable. I was afterwards informed that...