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...students, and the memory of Louis Agassiz seemed to keep alive an interest among them, with the desire of working as he would have wished. The Laboratory was hung with sentences from his lips and his writings; not a day passed when his name was not mentioned; and often a student of last year could be heard telling a new-comer of some act of kindness and thoughtfulness on the part of the great teacher...
...stopped, and hurriedly drank three glasses of sherry (I have given up the best pale, since Sanglier began to call so often), and rushed out, leaving me speechless. Class-Day eve, and Tom in that condition...
...this point the fair Gray had an unusually pleasant smile. One could not see her pretty face and trusting eyes without wishing to stroke her softly, as she lovingly replied: "O my dear Tom, I so wanted to tell you, now I hope we shall see you often? You know, I am engaged to Willie Symperson, and he lives only next door to you. It will be so pleasant to be such near neighbors, won't it? It is only from to-day, but we thought it best to have it out immediately...
...these high-flown and often utterly ridiculous descriptions of a future state were simply indifferent as a means for good or evil, or if they combined in themselves harmlessness for the hearers and satisfaction for the abnormal state of the preacher's mind, we could contentedly refrain from even a passing remark on the waste of time and effort...
...such a description as, taken even in its most figurative meaning, could inspire no enthusiasm for its attainment in any but the most animal natures. Perpetual rest, unending song, and Oriental luxury have been the spiritual food the preacher has offered under the appellation of heaven; and this, too often, to those. who despise the effeminacy of such luxury, and whose work, not rest, is their real happiness...