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"Well," I replied, "I can't say that he is in the habit of sitting down very often when he is on the road."
"Down on the Fair-Ground track," I replied with a nonchalant air.
At 2 P.M., sharp, I was outside the Senate-chamber door, armed with my passport and ready for business. Around me was a crowd of German youths, all loaded down with voluminous documents and looking excessively anxious. After an embarrassing delay we were admitted, but found no one there except...
At length the eventful day and hour came, my name was called, and I marched up to the table once more, passing successfully the Cerberus with the pile of papers, who could find no flaw in my passport this time. The next man was the Rector, who asked me my...
He ran on for five minutes, making no account of the dead boughs and thorny vines that impeded his way; then realizing that he must be on the wrong path, he stopped to consider. The girl could not be far from him, that was sure; he therefore rushed to this...