Word: talks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...There is talk of re-establishing "Sinonia and Bro hers...
...assure you that all my friends to whom I have spoken on the subject - and we often talk about it, since we can now look back over our course - agree unanimously in saying that they have had quite enough of the undergraduate life. They don't think that a longer stay here would...
...first I would not let her talk; but she seemed so well, and so assured me that she felt strong, that at last I let her go her own gait...
...sympathize, too, with the man who knows that on Christmas night there will be a scraggly pine-tree in the 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...
...naps are broken by my active neighbor, who says, "The French Left Centre don't care for the status quo, and the Pope's legs are horribly swollen." Now I don't know what a status quo is, and I don't believe he does. Why will he talk so? I was secretly glad yesterday when the instructor opened the window to keep the men awake, for I knew my neighbor did n't wear any overcoat...