Word: answering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Will answer as well...
ROSE HATHORN.Boggles, I say, was elated. Such a charmingly informal way of putting it, rating him at once as an old acquaintance. And then what a pretty name, - Rose! Curious that he had never noticed it before. Would he accept? Wouldn't he! Inspired with enthusiasm, he made his answer rather different from what formal etiquette would have required...
...made no answer. After a little, "Shall I go?" Yung asked...
...hope so; why not?" Not much in themselves, these words; but the tone was so low, so pleading, so hopeful, and withal so sweet, that the answer meant much...
...following communication, addressed to the President of the Yale Athletic Association, explains itself. It is greatly to be hoped that the answer will be satisfactory, and that the custom of annual athletic sports, which for so many years have been successful in England, between Oxford and Cambridge, may also be instituted between the two leading colleges of America. This is not intended to do away with the sending of representatives to Mott Haven, as both colleges will probably be represented there, whether this project is successfully carried through or not. Appended is the letter...