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...told her how much I could guess...
...Gaskill, '78, is trying to find money enough to get married on. Guess he won't succeed unless he employs more skill than usual, and refrains from gasing about it all the time. If we did not know him, we would lend him enough to tie the knot. We think we could borrow that much! Let your courage, wax - we were almost tempted to say something about waxing your mustache, but we remember...
...Thereby hangs a tale. I'll tell you as soon as I can make myself presentable. Well," continued he in a moment or two, "you know I went to Boscos. That village has particular charms for me just at present, and perhaps you can guess why I lingered and lingered until the last train had gone and my only hope was to catch the express as it stops for a moment at Boscos bridge. It was a breathless and stilly night, the tide at its flood but as calm as a lake, reflecting myriads of stars, that seemed arrayed...
...door the other afternoon, followed, with scarce a pause for an answer, by the entrance of a little old man. Closing the door behind him with brisk gentleness, he glided forward, and with the smile and manner of an old family friend, said, "Had your head examined? guess I didn't see you t' other day; have n't had your head examined, have you?" Politely motioning toward a friend who happened to be in the room, I pretended to be absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair by the window, closely studying a work...
...guess that's so," broke in Renardy. "And now, aged phrenologist, were I master of these spacious apartments, I should first entertain you with biscuits and sherry, and then request you to bestow your valuable presence elsewhere. As the matter stands, let me refer you to this gentleman, who has been eagerly waiting till you were at leisure and he could pour into your sympathetic ear something that's on his mind...