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...naturally, as we scudded along that evening, the mare and I, my thoughts turned on my future companion. They could not give me one of the boys. Either of my sisters? Well, perhaps. Mrs. Earl? Not if I knew it. I'm afraid she would be dangerous with a lone man. Miss Earl? If - But would her mother let her? But I kept my courage up, and indulged in castles in Spain of a mild type...
...staring disconsolately at the shelves, in vain straining my eyes for the wished-for book, a youth came along, mounted the step-ladder, and, removing some books on the top shelf, brought from behind them the very book I was looking for. The mystery was solved. Instead of some studious person having the book, it was an extremely selfish individual, who, in order to have the book when he desired it, had deprived many others from using it in the meanwhile. This is done through selfishness. Another cause of our being deprived of books is carelessness : a student finishing...
...moonlight on the complexion, I have been making the necessary preparations for my long, and, it is to be hoped, profitable voyage. Fifteen pounds of "Lone Jack" was my first investment. I have laid in this large supply, as it will be difficult to procure the correct weed along the route. As Athens is on the programme, I have taken Volume VIII. of Grote to refresh my memory of Socrates and the Prytaneum. The library of the "Ontario" seemed to lack books for light reading, so I invested in a choice assortment of new French novels, with the addition...
...began on the weather, of course; but we soon branched off, and were getting along nicely, when I happened to deny, laughingly, some statement under discussion. "I don't believe in it." said I, "any more than I do in old Cooke's molecular theory...
Very pretty was she as she played; the lamp which showed her her music shone through her hair, and left a line of light along her profile. Not a regular profile, but - There, there, this will never...