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...SCENE, Library. (Two old-clo' men speak to a dig at the table.) "I see you don't allow strangers in here; but we are not going to stay long. Are going right...
...light in charge of a professor of physics, who had borrowed it from Edison expressly for this occasion. The enlivening strains of heavenly melody, the brightly flashing armor of the knights, the brilliant galaxy of starry loveliness, the ferocious roaring of the imprisoned monsters, - all combined to make a scene richer than
VERY different from the scene to which we are accustomed at the Boat House is that presented on the river at Oxford. Besides the Oxford University Boat Club, which sends the crew to meet Cambridge in the famous race every spring, nearly all of the twenty-four colleges have boat-clubs of their own. The boat-clubs of most of the colleges own barges, - great hulks painted with the colors of the colleges to which they belong. The barges each contain a large club-room and a number of dressing-rooms, and, above, there is a deck from which...
...afternoon the river is a scene of indescribable animation; every one seems to be out in some sort of craft or other, and the picturesque costumes of members of the different boat-clubs add much to the effect. The crews pull down to Abingdon or farther; the less energetic row slowly, or paddle down to Iffley only, or perhaps go on through the lock to Sandford, take their shandigaff there, and then turn back; or else, taking a boat above the bridge, they row up to the charming little inn at Godstow, and come back with the stream. The lazier...
...SCENE III. Papanti's Hall. The Assembly. Dancing going on. MRS. MARRYWELL and daughter seated aside...