Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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SCENE: THE COLLEGE YARD. - IST SOPH. I say, Bill! What divinity do you think presides over the weather this week...
...Shame," which has for some time been the attraction at this theatre, is a comedy deserving of great praise for simplicity of plot, grace of language, and especially for the naturalness and effect with which all its situations and stage-business have been arranged. To these latter merits, we think, it owes its success; for there is but one character of importance in the piece, - that of Lord Chilton. This part was assumed by Mr. Barron, and we regard it as one of the best efforts ever made by that gentleman in comedy. Although forced, from the necessities...
...knew a dun once. He came, I think, from some coal-office in the distant Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word...
...trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in so cheap a manner. "Just think!" he said. "Only fifty cents to be paid each week. And, really, every fellow should own Don Quixote." Affairs went on smoothly for two or three weeks. The payments were prompt, and each number of the periodical was eagerly devoured. But at about the time mentioned my chum became very hard...