Word: brights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...return to our muttons. One bright August morning Diggles, arrayed in his spotless tennis suit, strolled nonchalantly down the hotel piazza and joined a group of young men and maidens sitting in the sun. His girl was among them. She was sitting on the railing holding on to a post. Diggles wished he were a post, but he soon banished the thought as unworthy of him. Patting on his most winsome smile he proposed an expedition to a neighboring sawmill. Ah, who could have foreseen the consequence of this little trip? But Diggles was a deep, deep...
...next morning, a bright and sunny Sabbath, he awoke and sprang lightly from his couch. Blithely he proceeded to untie the bundle of clothes. An exclamation of surprise escaped him. One by one, with feverish haste he examined the pieces. Each garment was new to his gaze, its form and pattern strange, its use impossible to conjecture. Slowly the awful truth dawned upon him. The garments belonged...
...bright thought crossed his mind. He would wear the clothing he had taken off the night before. Vain hope! The janitor had removed it, and all the rest was in the college locker in charge of the Faculty! Oh, horrible! Cold perspiration stood upon his brow as he paced the floor. Was he to miss chapel? What would his grandmother say when he broke the awful truth to her? Should he be obliged to shake the confiding trust of his dear teachers, and be for ever condemned in their eyes as a wicked chapel-cutter? He sickened at the thought...
That day two bright and smiling faces were missed at chapel, and with a grave and sorrowful shake of the head the noble president communicated the fact to his wife on the platform beside him. Afternoon service has come and gone, and still two bright and smiling faces are missing...
...entered the sanctum simultaneously through different doors, and a bright blush suffused the tear-stained cheek of the maiden as she saw a frill of "Hamburg edging" peeping from under the modest coat-sleeve of the youth. He gave one look, and a long, convulsive shudder shook his manly frame as he perceived a shirt-button peeping from beneath the lace about her neck...