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After an equally successful attempt at rowing, I gave up athletic sports, and decided not to be a much greater man than the rest of my class. But I hear you say, my dear guardian, "All this is very fine, but why don't the young scamp tell me what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SENIOR'S CONFESSION. | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

"I will; but please - pleaes don't look," I replied, ever mindful of my excellent bringing-up.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAISY SPRUCEWELL'S ROMANCE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

His noble self-abandon, his untutored emotion, overcame me. I could only gasp, "Don't squeeze my hand too hard, my gallant preserver. I am a simple, guileless maiden, and I cannot tell; but - papa wouldn't mind, I guess." ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAISY SPRUCEWELL'S ROMANCE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday, at 2. The Strakosch-Hess English Opera Company opened on Monday with great success. To-night will be given "Fra Diavolo," in which Miss Carrington makes her debut as Zerlina, supported by Mr. H. Peakes as Beppo, and Mr. Conly as Giacomo; both are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

I was aroused, after I don't know how long, by feeling my boat bumping on something; and I had a dim sense of having been towed across the Styx in a terribly oppressive atmosphere, and finally being broken to fragments on the Hades side.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUSINING. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »