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...must wait till the harness is mended; it will be half an hour or more. You must take her with you, and make your horse go. You can get home in eight minutes, if you try. Mamma will know what...
...full as a goat" to-night, etc., etc., some one would delicately but intelligibly intimate that H. H. was gobbling like a gosling, though it is true that the "tough" H. H. might not relish the remark, yet in the future he would probably think twice before making an exhibition of himself again. Nine tenths of Holworthy's hearers, doubtless, are quick enough to think privately that he is talking like an ass; but openly they smile approval, and this often from good-nature, and in the unconsciousness of any insincerity, - nay, more, with the inward satisfaction of having displayed...
...retinue of unpaid bills. Dick, likewise, is as sad as twilight. He took a hand with Dan Cupid last summer, and won. Ah! you conceited fellow, you are thinking that Rose is not quite worthy of you, and that you might have done better, after all. But you must make her a present, ex officio. We sympathize - with Rose...
...parlor, and a gathering of the haut ton there in honor of his arrival. He will have to talk poetry with his aunt, and Greek with the clergyman. But "neque tu choreas sperne, puer," and leave the clergyman to learn from mamma how hard you have studied; she will make out a much better case than yourself, we assure...
...remarkably fine section, this of ours, but it has its peculiarities. There is a little saying, -which I hope you have never heard, -that it takes all kinds of people to make up a world. So it is with that part of the world which consists of our section. There are men in it that I thought -before I came to college -only existed in the uncivilized "universities" of the far West...