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...will sit on you when next...
Mori dulce sit...
...handy that I rarely use it; I do not have to go to prayers; not a soul comes to see me; everything is kept in the best order; I can sing myself hoarse without disturbing any one; there is n't a proctor within hailing distance. I can sit here all day wrapped in that absolute quiet which is so essential to the production of the best lies. But I have society - plenty of it - when I feel sociable. I am sorry to say that most of the time I am as frigid as a frozen walrus; when, however...
These girls think that I know everything; they call me "Mr. Tournville" when I am present, but when I am absent, "Frank." I like to watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course...
...desiring to sit in Boston must make an appointment with Mr. Notman, if his personal superintendence is wished...